Full Metal Jacket |  | Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Adam Baldwin, Bruce Boa, Tim Colceri, Vincent D'Onofrio, Peter Edmund
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  480 reviews
Sales Rank: 193610
Format: NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Vietnamese (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Running Time: 116 Minutes
UPC: 085391737223
EAN: 0085391737223
ASIN: B00000JKSV
Theatrical Release Date: June 26, 1987
Release Date: June 29, 1999
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Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty of reason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begins on a Parris Island boot camp for rookie Marines and abruptly switches to Vietnam (actually shot on sound stages and locations near London), Full Metal Jacket comes across as a series of self-contained chapters in a story whose logical and thematic development is oblique at best. Then again, much the same was said about Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a masterwork both enthralled with and satiric about the future's role in the unfinished business of human evolution. In a way, Full Metal Jacket is the wholly grim counterpart of 2001. While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyed and wary, about the intertwining of progress and isolation (ending in our redemption, finally, by death), Full Metal Jacket is a cynical, Reagan-era view of the 1960s' hunger for experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence. Lee Ermey made film history as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name of tribal uniformity creates its darkest angel in a murderous half-wit (Vincent D'Onofrio). Matthew Modine gives a smart and savvy performance as Private Joker, the clowning, military journalist who yearns to get away from the propaganda machine and know firsthand the horrific revelation of the front line. In Full Metal Jacket, depravity and fulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from the material to make the point. --Tom Keogh
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Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter. Certainly, Kubrick gave audiences plenty of reason to wonder why he made the film at all: essentially a two-part drama that begins on a Parris Island boot camp for rookie Marines and abruptly switches to Vietnam (actually shot on sound stages and locations near London), Full Metal Jacket comes across as a series of self-contained chapters in a story whose logical and thematic development is oblique at best. Then again, much the same was said about Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, a masterwork both enthralled with and satiric about the future's role in the unfinished business of human evolution. In a way, Full Metal Jacket is the wholly grim counterpart of 2001. While the latter is a truly 1960s film, both wide-eyed and wary, about the intertwining of progress and isolation (ending in our redemption, finally, by death), Full Metal Jacket is a cynical, Reagan-era view of the 1960s' hunger for experience and consciousness that fulfilled itself in violence. Lee Ermey made film history as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name of tribal uniformity creates its darkest angel in a murderous half-wit (Vincent D'Onofrio). Matthew Modine gives a smart and savvy performance as Private Joker, the clowning, military journalist who yearns to get away from the propaganda machine and know firsthand the horrific revelation of the front line. In Full Metal Jacket, depravity and fulfillment go hand in hand, and it's no wonder Kubrick kept his steely distance from the material to make the point. --Tom Keogh
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 Full Metal Jacket (Blu-ray) February 7, 2010
D. L. Weiss (Milwaukee WI)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's the best Vietnam movie ever made. Great to see in hi definition and the extras are very good.
Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Edition) [Blu-ray] February 1, 2010
Michael A. Raffanello
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great classic war movie, it gave me flash backs of boot camp.
I could not tell the difference between the DVD version and the Blue Ray version.
One of Kubrick's scariest January 30, 2010
Kenneth Apostol (AUSTIN, TX, US)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great movie. Being a former jarhead myself, the boot camp scenes were uncannily realistic.
 Loved the first half of the movie, not so thrilled with 2nd half January 24, 2010
Marcus T. Brody (Tampa Bay, FL)
Full Metal Jacket, as most of you know (since it's been around 23 years), is really 2 movies rolled into one. The basic training on Paris Island in South Carolina is virtually 100% isolated from the rest of the movie, which takes place in vietnam. The basic training, the first half of the movie, is the only part that captured and held my attention. I can't remember a movie, virtually having a part 1, then a sequel in the same movie, ever existing. It's like the first half is Full Metal Jacket, and the 2nd half is Full Metal Jacket 2.
Anyway, with that said, the basic training with Gomer Pile was basically everything you look for in a movie. It was emotionally driven, compelling, and even brought out feelings of anger and sadness within you. But the 2nd half of the movie was below average, at best. It did none of the above for me, unfortunately.
With that said, just because of the first half of the movie, I'd give it 3 out of 5 stars.
I am confused... January 22, 2010
Michael N. Burch (Smyrna, Tennessee United States)
OK... Now I am totally confused! The main reason I held off buying FMJ when it first came out on DVD was because it was full frame. I refuse to buy full frame DVD's and was waiting for FMJ to come out in widescreen format. It appears from some of those posting reviews here that the Blu Ray version of FMJ is NOT widescreen but some format that cuts out a portion of the frame??? Can someone who is absolutely sure they know what they are talking about please clear this up for me (and I am sure many others as well)?
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