Extremely bad

Rating: 2/10 (9 April 2006)

First of all, I'd like to say I'm a great fan of war movies - I've seen dozens of them and enjoyed most of them. I can't say that about this one. I don't think I've ever seen a worse war/military movie than Jarhead. The plot had two parts - the marine boot camp, and first Iraqi war (Desert Shield and Desert Storm) and they both lacked any valuable content. I understand this movie was meant to be different than most of other war movies, and it actually was - it was much worse. The total absence of any message or anything at least remotely interesting, poor action and rather poor acting made me leave the movie theater. I was curious if I didn't overreact so I finished watching it later. It has convinced me that I was right. I know that many people have enjoyed this movie, but from my point of view - I can't recommend it.