I'm not saying you shouldn't see this...

Rating: 3/10 (5 November 2005)

How this movie escaped an NC-17 rating is a mystery. There are three scenes of explicit sex with full motion and breast, rear and side nudity. One of those instances is a malicious "Dear John" letter that comes in the form of a video showing a Marine's wife having sex with his neighbor back home. After the cuckolded Marine stalks off in rage, his comrades call him a "homo" and clamor to watch the pornographic footage again.
Swofford is obsessed with masturbation, and one scene shows him masturbating while clutching a picture of his girlfriend dressed in a skimpy T-shirt and panties (the camera watches from behind him). The other Marines seem to always have sex on the brain, too, often discussing sexual encounters in their past and making obscene suggestions about what they'd like to do to various women. At the same time they construct a "wall of shame" with pictures of the wives and girlfriends back home who have had sex with other men in their absence.
In a bit of horseplay the Marines strip off their chemical-warfare oversuits (they're still wearing their trousers) and simulate an orgy of oral and anal sex, hamming it up for visiting reporters. During a drunken party Swofford dances while wearing nothing but a Santa Claus hat over his genitals. A group of Marines is shown showering, although the lighting prevents us from seeing anything explicit.
Obscene sexual slang is the rule here, not the exception. A slew of gay jokes are told, and references are made to sodomy. Obscene hand and mouth gestures are made.
-pluggedinonline.com