Full Metal Jacket
Directed by Stanley KubrickA two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in boot camp under the command of the punishing Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive.
Full Metal Jacket Ratings & Reviews
- sopulaFebruary 11, 2026two very chilling payoffs all of the boys remind you of real life people you may have met and especially the big boy prvt pile who somehow was perfectly portrayed as a realistic misunderstood potentially unstable man who really did not need what he got very good
- runinhotJuly 8, 2025Me love this movie long time!!
- ርልዪረFebruary 23, 2025It was AMAZING! It teaches me a lot about what they were like in war. I am actually learning about it right now in school and this movie helped me get an A+ on my science paper! Thank you so much to everyone who made this movie it really helped me out in school and in life. It was a great plot twist when the "fat guy" was getting punished in really terrible ways and then killed there captain and then killed himself wow I thought he would just be happy that he learned how to move his gun but I was wrong....... I am not gonna spoil anymore so if you see this before the movie........................................... GO WATCH IT IT'S SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!
- vqciFebruary 4, 2026Average Stanley W
- Michael GeeJanuary 31, 2026What can you say, from the master Stanley Kubrick. Has to be on the list of the best films of all time. A masterpiece.
- ReubenDecember 20, 2025Kubrick's best in my opinion.
- alexvla8December 4, 2025Masterpiece
- darsanMay 26, 2025"the dead know only one thing: it's better to be alive." a great war film by stanley kubrick.
- SamNovember 17, 2025five stars for the first half, one and a half stars for the second. the second half felt like an extremely generic war movie
- andrewAugust 16, 2025my confusions of honor were abundant, but after watching this film i feel myself now enlightened to how the nation’s hierarchy of reverence descends in order: billionaires -> athletes -> rockstars -> actors -> millionaires -> and only then, public servants and veterans. what shocked me most was not the brutality of the marines’ training, but how a society that sends its young men to war seems to save its deepest admiration for those who never leave the stage.
- Paul SchwartzNovember 4, 2025The boot camp part takes me right back to 18 years old every single time, i find the movie compelling and the message of duality really comes into play
- Splitvision89September 17, 2025It's a movie that is hard to put in words. I hate it but also loved it.
- SniffinTroutSeptember 7, 2025Kind of a depressing movie now I think about it🤣 still a classic
- LeeAugust 15, 2025Overrated like most Kubrick films.
- Short ReviewsJuly 1, 2025Kubrick, my god, please forgive me because I have sin of not watching this movie earlier.
Full Metal Jacket Trivia
Full Metal Jacket was released on June 26, 1987.
Full Metal Jacket was directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Full Metal Jacket has a runtime of 1h 56m.
Full Metal Jacket was produced by Stanley Kubrick.
A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in boot camp under the command of the punishing Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive.
The key characters in Full Metal Jacket are Pvt. Joker (Matthew Modine), Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin), Pvt. Pyle (Vincent D'Onofrio).
Full Metal Jacket is rated R.
Full Metal Jacket is a Drama, War film.
Full Metal Jacket has an audience rating of 9.4 out of 10.
Full Metal Jacket had a budget of $30M.
Full Metal Jacket has made $46.4M at the box office.