![]() The film’s cinematography alone makes it worth the price of admission. ![]() Its not that Full Metal Jacket is totally bereft of redeeming characteristics bad movie or not, Kubrick was a genius. ![]() Instead of a realistic portrait of solders coming to terms with the horrors of war, we are given superficial caricatures and a disjointed plot that doesn’t even hint at the essential truth of anything other than being in love with its highly stylized self. That automatic veneration is baffling, as if the strength of director Stanley Kubrick’s reputation alone is enough, because it should rank among his worst efforts. Anytime a list is drawn up by the cinema powers that be, something along the lines of “greatest war movies” or “seminal depictions of the Vietnam War in cinema,” it invariably includes Full Metal Jacket.
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