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Have you seen the review of this movie from Roger Ebert?

Here are some excerpts:

"The opening passages of "Full Metal Jacket" promise much more than the film finally is able to deliver. They tell the story of a group of marine grunts undergoing basic training on Paris Island, and the experience comes down to a confrontation between the gunnery sergeant and a tubby misfit who is nicknamed Gomer Pyle. These are the two best performances in the movie, which never recovers after they leave the scene."

"There is a surprise to come, however: the complete abandonment of the sexual metaphor once the troops are in Vietnam. The movie disintegrates into a series of self-contained set pieces, none of them quite satisfying."

"But Full Metal Jacket is uncertain where to go, and the movie's climax, which Kubrick obviously intends to be a mighty moral revelation, seems phoned in from earlier war pictures. After what has already been said about "Vietnam" in the movies, Full Metal Jacket is too little and too late."


He gave the movie 2-1/2 star out of four stars.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...706260302/1023