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Movie Overview
Cast
• Matthew Modine
• Adam Baldwin
• R. Lee Ermey
Director
• Stanley Kubrick
MPAA Rating
R - Violence
Full Metal Jacket (1987)

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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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4.5/5
"The best movie ever made about the American experience in Vietnam happens to have been filmed by an American expatriate living in Britain."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

"The best American cinematic critique of the Vietnam war"  Cinemania  Dan Jardine

4/4
"The movie warrants a response that is perhaps the closest thing possible on film to witnessing the mayhem firsthand."  Cinemaphile.org  David Keyes

"Kubrick seems to be directing his vision beyond the reality of the Vietnam War to issues far more universal and timeless."  DVD Review  Felix Gonzalez Jr.

"Albert Camus once urged that men be neither victims nor executioners. This film shows how in Vietnam, American soldiers were both."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

4.5/5
"An examination of humans at their worst that's grounded in very specific circumstances but has universal resonance."  Netflix  James Rocchi

7/10
"...Kubrick's notion of how the military changes ordinary people into killing machines."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

3/4
"Many call this the best war film ever, and they're not totally wrong."  Montreal Film Journal  Kevin N. Laforest

6/8
"[Kubrick's] third best."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Mark R. Leeper

5/5
"It is humanity as flawed system -- the faulty meat run through the grinder of war."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

3.5/4
"Incredibly realistic and immensely enjoyable."  Oscar Guy  Wesley Lovell
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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