the modern day Apocalypse Now

Rating: 9/10 (17 August 2009)

What makes Jarhead great is that it is a smart story with a great screenplay good acting and has one brilliant soundtrack. Another reason i love Jarhead is that it's not like many of the other American war films to come out recently as this you don't even see a single enemy die and the lead character dosen't kill anyone that is what made this movie stand out to the Black Hawk Downs of this world. I think this film is the Apocalypse Now of the 21st century because they are both powerful movies showing horrors of war and even though apocalypse now is better (just) Jarhead deserves every right to be compared to it. I hope many war films will follow Jarhead and also more movies about the Persian gulf will follow as it reminded me of how horrible it was in that war.
So overall Jarhead is one of the best war films to come out in many years and was just excellent with a fantastic script and a first-rate job by Sam Mendes and once again a incredible soundtrack.