A Pathetic Mess, and A Disgrace to The USMC

Rating: 1/10 (6 July 2006)

I usually only write a review when I really have something to say. This film at first left me speechless, then made me angry. Our troops have enough to deal with in the desserts of the middle east then to be portrayed as a bunch of mindless animals. We know how things can get for the guys out there when they're a long way from home, but we don't need to go through their intimate issues chapter and verse.
Why didn't the filmmakers take Stan Kubrick's example of how a war film should be done. "Full Metal Jacket" along with "Apocalypse Now" are among the best illustrated war films along with of coarse "Saving Private Ryan". This was garbage on display. The infantry soldiers of the USMC are about far more than what was seen in this film. Marines concentrate and engage their attention to one thing most of the time, which is to kill the enemy. I was disappointed to see how the filmmakers opened the film with one racy scene after another.
The bottom line here is, for the people who made this film they should be ashamed of themselves for disrespecting the branch of our armed forces which deserves the most honor, the USMC.
Jarhead is a exploitive stereotype of what Marines strive NOT to be. For any one reading this review, if you love the corp and your country, don't see this film.