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Jarhead
Directed by
Sam Mendes
R
2005
2h 3m
Drama
,
War
,
and more
7.0
60%
68%
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A psychological study of Marine's state of mind during the Gulf War. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Marine sniper who struggles to cope with boredom, a sense of isolation, and other issues back home.
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Cast of Jarhead
Jake Gyllenhaal
Anthony Swofford
Jamie Foxx
Staff Sgt. Sykes
Peter Sarsgaard
Alan Troy
Scott MacDonald
D.I. Fitch
Chris Cooper
Lt. Col. Kazinski
Laz Alonso
Ramon Escobar
Lucas Black
Kruger
Brian Geraghty
Fergus O'Donnell
Damion Poitier
Poitier
Jocko Sims
Julius
Dennis Haysbert
Major Lincoln
John Krasinski
Corporal Harrigan
Kevin Foster
Branded Marine
Riad Galayini
Nurse
Craig Coyne
Young Mr. Swofford
Katherine Randolph
Young Mrs. Swofford
Rini Bell
Swoff's Sister
Dendrie Taylor
Mrs. Swofford
James Morrison
Mr. Swofford
Ming Lo
Bored Gunny
Brianne Davis
Kristina
Evan Jones
PFC Dave Fowler
Todd Jensen
Lieutenant
Nick Dash
Corp Marine
Jacob Vargas
Juan Cortez
Iván Fenyő
Pinko
Martin Papazian
Brian Dettman
Becky Boxer
Dettman's Wife
Mark Davis
Dettman's Neighbor
Kareem J. Grimes
Welty
Jarhead Ratings & Reviews
USA Today
Mike Clark
Director Sam Mendes' third screen outing pretty well nails Swofford's tone, which was mordant without being disrespectful, and, in fact, is begrudgingly reverent of the Corps.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Jarhead is often a film about boredom, but it's never boring; full of unexpected touches and detailed character turns.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The invigorating thing about Jarhead is it makes us encounter the truth in its undigested form.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
It is clear, fairly early on, that David O' Russell's vastly superior Three Kings is still the definitive opus on the first Gulf War.
Zap2it.com
Daniel Fienberg
Jarhead is a frustrating piece of craftsmanship, a fantastically made movie on a technical level that leaves viewers with nothing in the end.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's not a pretty picture, but it is a lovely film.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Gyllenhaal is the heart and soul of a darkly funny and ferociously intense movie that sets its sights on soldiers under the gun of doing nothing.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Ken Tucker
Jarhead is utterly predictable (boys endure tough training; boys encounter another culture and are baffled), studded with first-rate performances.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Screenwriter William Broyles, Jr., a former Vietnam pilot and Newsweek editor, connects reasonably well with the material, but American Beauty director Sam Mendes has a tendency to smooth out the rough edges, and the film goes flat as month-old soda.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
This is a very strong film with really good performances.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
What's so good about the movie is Gyllenhaal's refusal to show off; he doesn't seem jealous of the camera's attention when it goes to others and is content, for long stretches, to serve simply as a prism though which other young men can be observed.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
The best war movies -- and this one, despite its being overlong and repetitive, is among them -- hold that men fight (or in this case, are ready to fight) not for causes, but to survive and to help their comrades do the same.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
As hard as the actors work, Jarhead feels false right down to its seductive visuals.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Do I quibble over details? Details are all the movie offers.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
I dare anyone to watch this bold exercise in postponed gratification and not come away with a new, disturbed sense of the genre.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Although the picture suffers a narrative letdown in the third act that leaves its central characters -- and, alas, its audience -- in the muck of anticlimax, Jarhead has moments of real glory.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
The movie has some of the washed-out look of David O. Russell's excellent Three Kings, but none of the edge.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Nicely acted, beautifully shot and pretty much devoid of action and context, Jarhead has to be considered one of the year's biggest failures, simply because so much talent went into a film so empty.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
In the end, Jarhead is more of a training exercise than a meaningful mission, one that hits some targets without drawing any blood.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Jarhead does an impressive job of articulating the weird, often volatile convergence of the antisocial with the utterly loyal that seems to be the M.O. of a lot of men not yet grown.
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