Absolutely amazing.

Rating: 10/10 (14 March 2006)

Jarhead is poignant. It starkly demonstrates the experience of hanging out with a bunch of testosterone-laden men who have been trained to slaughter on command, which I found both hilarious, and depressing. I am, in fact, a pacifist, and yet I sympathized entirely with these men, who willingly shoved themselves into dangerous situations only to honour their country. Watch this movie. Buy this movie. Get the title engraved on your mantelpiece. In fact, get it tattooed up and down your limbs, just so that you can remember that this is your new favourite movie. Oh, and a note for the girls: Jake Gyllenhaal is awfully fetching, is he not?