Full Metal Jacket 112 minutes, UK/USA (1987), 18

(5.0)

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Mathew Modine and Lee Ermey star in Kubrick's unforgettable chronicle of Marine training and combat action during the Vietnam War

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Stanley Kubrick

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Full Metal Jacket: If anyone's going to succeed in demonstrating how fresh-faced recruits can be reduced to machines during military training, it's Stanley Kubrick, a director not known for warm, fuzzy portrayals of humanity. Weirdly, by delivering this message so unflinchingly, Full Metal Jacket emerges as one of Kubrick's most engaging films, never letting us forget precisely what its lead characters have lost...

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