Full Metal Jacket

Name: Full Metal Jacket 1987 Movie
Rating: 4.8

Vietnam can kill me, but it can’t make me care.

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Release Date : 26 Jun, 1987

Duration : 1h 57m

Generes : Drama War

Vote Average : 8.138 Vote Count : 9,419 Popularity : 32.786

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Production Country

United Kingdom

Budget

$ 30,000,000

Revenue

$ 46,357,676

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Full Metal Jacket - Trailer
Full Metal Jacket - Official Trailer [1987] HD

Reviews

A review by Ian Beale

Written by Ian Beale on 15 Feb, 2017

**The second half is better than the first half.** A film of two halves. The first half of the fiim focuses on the training of raw recruits and features shenanigans we have seen countless times before - think _Stripes_ and _Police Academy_. The persecution of the fat guy - a scenario we ha...

A review by CRCulver

Written by CRCulver on 31 Jul, 2018

Released in 1986, Full Metal Jacket is Stanley Kubrick's film about Vietnam, adapted from a novel by the reclusive and bitter Vietnam veteran Gustav Harford, and then further expanded by acclaimed Vietnam journalist Michael Herr. The film breaks down neatly into two very different parts, t...

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 07 Oct, 2020

The Marine's don't want robots - they want killers. This is the journey undertaken by Private "Joker" J.T. Davis, from brutal training camp to Vietnam itself. As most people know by now, Full Metal Jacket is divided very much into two different halves, halves that to me show the best and worst...