Rent Full Metal Jacket (1987)
4.1 of 5 from 415 ratings
1h 52min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- A superb ensemble cast falls in for action in Stanley Kubrick's brilliant saga about the Vietnam War and the dehumanizing process that turns people into trained killers. Joker (Matthew Modine), Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin), Gomer (Vincent D'Onofrio), Eightball (Dorian Harewood), Cowboy (Arliss Howard) and more - all are plunged into a boot-camp hell pitbulled by a leatherlung D.I. (Lee Ermey) who views the would-be devil dogs as grunts, maggots or something less. The action is savage, the story unsparing, the dialogue spiked with scathing humor. 'Full Metal Jacket', from its rigors of basic training to its nightmare of combat in Hue City, scores a cinematic direct hit.
- Actors:
- Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, Kevyn Major Howard, Arliss Howard, Ed O'Ross, John Terry, Kieron Jecchinis, Kirk Taylor, Tim Colceri, Jon Stafford, Bruce Boa, Ian Tyler, Sal Lopez, Gary Landon Mills, Papillon Soo, Peter Edmund, Ngoc Le
- Directors:
- Stanley Kubrick
- Producers:
- Stanley Kubrick
- Voiced By:
- Stanley Kubrick
- Writers:
- Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford
- Others:
- John Evans, Andy Nelson, Nigel Galt, Edward Tise, Michael Herr
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Collections:
- Award Winners, Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Denzel Washington, JFK on Screen, The Biggest Oscar Snubs: Part 2, The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Stanley Kubrick, Top 100 AFI Thrills, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 04/12/2006
- Run Time:
- 116 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 5.1, English LPCM Stereo, French Dolby Digital 5.1, German Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English, French, German
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- Theatrical Trailer
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 21/09/2020
- Run Time:
- 116 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, German Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian Dolby Digital 5.1, Latin American Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Arabic, Cantonese, Castillian, Chinese, Complex Mandarin, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German Hard of Hearing, Italian Hard of Hearing, Korean, Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Thai
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Commentary by Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey and Critic/Screenwriter Jay Cocks
- Featurette 'Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil
- Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews (4) of Full Metal Jacket
Classic - Full Metal Jacket review by CP Customer
Excellent film, if you like war films then you'll love this. Up there with the likes of Platoon and Apocalypse Now amongst others.
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
kubrick at his best! - Full Metal Jacket review by CP Customer
This film is based on the novel "The Short-Timers" by Gustav Hasford.The first half of this film is set in boot camp on Parris Island.The second half is then set in a war stricken Vietnam.The film sparks into life straight away with the magnificent Sgt Hartman questioning his new recruits about their home place and so forth.The most intresting of these characters would be Gomer Pile who is picked on from the start.The way Kubrick builds up Pile is sheer excellence.Sgt Hartman Is cruel but brilliant.For example the way the group get punished for Piles mistakes.And for this the group begin to resent PIles and bully him.The film now builds to an amazing climax...... Its off to Vietnam next where you begin to realise this is an anti-war film.This film is far better than its closest rivals "Platoon" and "Hamburger hill" ."Full Metal Jacket"dispels Vietnam myths and is rich in black humour which serves to undercut any possible air of pretension. The claustrophobic feel to the film adds to the the tension and atmosphere. Overall this film is a true masterpiece and should be bought by any war or Kubrick fan.This is without a doubt one of thre greatest war movies ever made.
1 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
Harrowing and Disturbing - A Masterpiece War Film - Full Metal Jacket review by GI
This anti-war drama has all the more power for being set in the Vietnam War, a conflict that history has not drenched in honour or claimed as a fight against tyranny. It's a war where a major nation sacrificed its young men often needlessly in the quest for political dominance on the world stage. Having said that this ranks alongside such similar narratives as All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) and Stanley Kubrick's own Paths Of Glory (1957). Here Kubrick is concerned with the dehumanisation of young men so the State can turn them into all functioning killers by emphasising how cruelty inherent in humankind is bought forth as a terrible weapon of war. In that sense this is a harrowing war drama built around two distinctive segments. The first where young recruits are broken down and depersonalised at a Marine Corps barracks under the bullying and violence of a Drill Sergeant (R. Lee Ermey in a fantastic and highly memorable performance), the narrative focusing on two particular recruits Private 'Joker' (Matthew Modine), who just about maintains his inner moral code and Private 'Pyle' (Vincent D'Onofrio), a weak, retarded man who is turned into a psychopath by the treatment he experiences. The second segment is the combat section set in Vietnam where 'Joker' joins a squad of men and witnesses their casual and humorous attitude to death, killing and their complete loss of morality. Their emotions are enlivened only by revenge and the kudos obtained when they make a kill. There is no glory on display here even though the soldiers spout heroic rhetoric to a TV camera and each other. This is a shocking indictment of modern warfare waged by States for dubious reasons and consequently it's a film that stays in the memory. It is most definitely one of the most impactive war films ever made.
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