Call it for what it is!

Rating: 1/10 (6 November 2005)

Appropriate ratings don't exist anymore. In an attempt to draw as many movie goers and profits possible, Jarhead was outrageously under-rated. This movie should have been rated NC17 or X. We went to the movie after viewing the trailer, slightly interested hoping to see some quality which has been demonstrated by some of the main characters in the movie - We were sorely disappointed. There were slight attempts to humor, and no heroic scenes AT ALL, military or otherwise. We actually had to leave the theater because of the overdone, graphic, & meaningless cursing and sex trash. This movie represents the cause for declining movie tickets sales. It was riddled with anti-war overtones. To sum it up - SAVE YOUR $$$$, JARHEAD was as 'Swofford' (the main character)characterized "empty - filled with nothing". I must say in some defense of movie-raters, it was my own misfortune that I failed to investigate the reason for the R rating - which I usually do when I decide to see an R rated movie. Never again!