Full Metal Jacket

What happened to the Kubrick who used to slip in sly, subtle jokes and little editing tricks? This may be his worst movie.

Full Metal Jacket is violent, caustic, ironic, and cold, an amoral object formed from a camera gliding majestically across slow-motion carnage while refusing to blink an eye or shed a tear.

Kubrick is trying to make a movie about madness and chaos, but he won't give in to the chaos.

The most horrifying moments of Full Metal Jacket are those in which the young Americans gladly assist in their own damnation.

Full Metal Jacket seems further proof that Kubrick is still trapped in self-pleasing cinematic exercise.

[Kubrick's] genius, and perhaps burden, is to see the insanity in us all and to make it seem so terrifyingly normal.

As Private Leonard “Gomer Pyle” Lawrence, D’Onofrio encapsulates the impact that military brainwashing can have on soldiers and their mental health in a way that is better than expected

A hard-hitting movie laced with moments of dark humour and brimming with social commentary, Full Metal Jacket is viewed as one of the all-time great war movie.

Kubrick had a way of making the audience become invested in the characters of his films and created some truly memorable ones.

It was a gross injustice that Ermey was not nominated for his tremendous performance.