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DramaWar

Full Metal Jacket

- 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 : 1987-06-26

Language :EnglishVietnamese

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : NatantStanley Kubrick ProductionsWarner Bros. Pictures

Production Country : United KingdomUnited States of America

Alternative Titles : Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket

Cast

Matthew Modine

Character Name : Pvt. Joker

Original Name : Matthew Modine

Gender : Male

Adam Baldwin

Character Name : Animal Mother

Original Name : Adam Baldwin

Gender : Male

Vincent D'Onofrio

Character Name : Pvt. Pyle

Original Name : Vincent D'Onofrio

Gender : Male

R. Lee Ermey

Character Name : Gny. Sgt. Hartman

Original Name : R. Lee Ermey

Gender : Male

Dorian Harewood

Character Name : Eightball

Original Name : Dorian Harewood

Gender : Male

Kevyn Major Howard

Character Name : Rafterman

Original Name : Kevyn Major Howard

Gender : Male

Arliss Howard

Character Name : Pvt. Cowboy

Original Name : Arliss Howard

Gender : Male

Ed O'Ross

Character Name : Lt. Touchdown

Original Name : Ed O'Ross

Gender : Male

John Terry

Character Name : Lt. Lockhart

Original Name : John Terry

Gender : Male

Kieron Jecchinis

Character Name : Crazy Earl

Original Name : Kieron Jecchinis

Gender : Male

Kirk Taylor

Character Name : Payback

Original Name : Kirk Taylor

Gender : Male

Tim Colceri

Character Name : Doorgunner

Original Name : Tim Colceri

Gender : Male

Jon Stafford

Character Name : Doc Jay

Original Name : Jon Stafford

Gender : Male

Bruce Boa

Character Name : Poge Colonel

Original Name : Bruce Boa

Gender : Male

Ian Tyler

Character Name : Lt. Cleves

Original Name : Ian Tyler

Gender : Male

Sal Lopez

Character Name : T.H.E. Rock

Original Name : Sal Lopez

Gender : Male

Gary Landon Mills

Character Name : Donlon

Original Name : Gary Landon Mills

Gender : Male

Papillon Soo

Character Name : Da Nang Hooker

Original Name : Papillon Soo

Gender : Female

Peter Edmund

Character Name : Snowball

Original Name : Peter Edmund

Gender : Male

Ngoc Le

Character Name : V.C. Sniper

Original Name : Ngoc Le

Gender : Male

Leanne Hong

Character Name : Motorbike Hooker

Original Name : Leanne Hong

Gender : Male

Tan Hung Francione

Character Name : ARVN Pimp

Original Name : Tan Hung Francione

Gender : Male

Marcus D'Amico

Character Name : Hand Job

Original Name : Marcus D'Amico

Gender : Male

Costas Dino Chimona

Character Name : Chili

Original Name : Costas Dino Chimona

Gender : Male

Gil Kopel

Character Name : Stork

Original Name : Gil Kopel

Gender : Male

Keith Hodiak

Character Name : Daddy DA

Original Name : Keith Hodiak

Gender : Male

Peter Merrill

Character Name : TV Journalist

Original Name : Peter Merrill

Gender : Male

Herbert Norville

Character Name : Daytona Dave

Original Name : Herbert Norville

Gender : Male

Nguyen Hue Phong

Character Name : Camera Thief

Original Name : Nguyen Hue Phong

Gender : Male

Duc Hu Ta

Character Name : Dead N.V.A.

Original Name : Duc Hu Ta

Gender : Male

Martin Adams

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Martin Adams

Gender : Male

Kevin Albridge

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Kevin Albridge

Gender : Male

Del Anderson

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Del Anderson

Gender : Male

Philip Bailey

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Philip Bailey

Gender : Male

Louis Barlotti

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Louis Barlotti

Gender : Male

John Beddows

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : John Beddows

Gender : Male

Patrick Benn

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Patrick Benn

Gender : Male

Steve Boucher

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Steve Boucher

Gender : Male

Adrian Bush

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Adrian Bush

Gender : Male

Tony Carey

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Tony Carey

Gender : Male

Gary Cheeseman

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Gary Cheeseman

Gender : Male

Wayne Clark

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Wayne Clark

Gender : Male

Chris Cornibert

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Chris Cornibert

Gender : Male

Danny Cornibert

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Danny Cornibert

Gender : Male

John Curtis

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : John Curtis

Gender : Male

John Davis

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : John Davis

Gender : Male

Harry Davies

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Harry Davies

Gender : Male

Kevin Day

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Kevin Day

Gender : Male

Gordon Duncan

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Gordon Duncan

Gender : Male

Phil Elmer

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Phil Elmer

Gender : Male

Colin Elvis

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Colin Elvis

Gender : Male

Hadrian Follett

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Hadrian Follett

Gender : Male

Sean Frank

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Sean Frank

Gender : Male

David George

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : David George

Gender : Male

Laurie Gomes

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Laurie Gomes

Gender : Male

Brian Goodwin

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Brian Goodwin

Gender : Male

Nigel Goulding

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Nigel Goulding

Gender : Male

Tony Hague

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Tony Hague

Gender : Male

Steve Hands

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Steve Hands

Gender : Male

Chris Harris

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Chris Harris

Gender : Male

Robert E. Hartenberger

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Robert E. Hartenberger

Gender : Male

Derek Hart

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Derek Hart

Gender : Male

Barry Hayes

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Barry Hayes

Gender : Male

Tony Hayes

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Tony Hayes

Gender : Male

Robin Hedgeland

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Robin Hedgeland

Gender : Male

Duncan Henry

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Duncan Henry

Gender : Male

Kenneth Head

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Kenneth Head

Gender : Male

Liam Hogan

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Liam Hogan

Gender : Male

Trevor Hogan

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Trevor Hogan

Gender : Male

Luke Hogdal

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Luke Hogdal

Gender : Male

Steve Hudson

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Steve Hudson

Gender : Male

Tony Howard

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Tony Howard

Gender : Male

Sean Lamming

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Sean Lamming

Gender : Male

Dan Landin

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Dan Landin

Gender : Male

Tony Leete

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Tony Leete

Gender : Male

Nigel Lough

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Nigel Lough

Gender : Male

Terry Lowe

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Terry Lowe

Gender : Male

Frank McCardle

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Frank McCardle

Gender : Male

Gary Meyer

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Gary Meyer

Gender : Male

Brett Middleton

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Brett Middleton

Gender : Male

David Milner

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : David Milner

Gender : Male

Sean Minmagh

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Sean Minmagh

Gender : Male

Tony Minmagh

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Tony Minmagh

Gender : Male

John Morrison

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : John Morrison

Gender : Male

Russell Mott

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Russell Mott

Gender : Male

John Ness

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : John Ness

Gender : Male

Robert Booth Nichols

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Robert Booth Nichols

Gender : Male

David Perry

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : David Perry

Gender : Male

Peter Rommely

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Peter Rommely

Gender : Male

Pat Sands

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Pat Sands

Gender : Male

Jim Sarup

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Jim Sarup

Gender : Male

Chris Maybach

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Chris Maybach

Gender : Male

Al Simpson

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Al Simpson

Gender : Male

Russell Slater

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Russell Slater

Gender : Male

Gary Smith

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Gary Smith

Gender : Male

Roger Smith

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Roger Smith

Gender : Male

Tony Smith

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Tony Smith

Gender : Male

Anthony Styliano

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Anthony Styliano

Gender : Male

Bill Thompson

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Bill Thompson

Gender : Male

Mike Turjansky

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Mike Turjansky

Gender : Male

Dan Weldon

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Dan Weldon

Gender : Male

Dennis Wells

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Dennis Wells

Gender : Male

Michael Anthony Williams

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : Michael Anthony Williams

Gender : Male

John Wilson

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : John Wilson

Gender : Male

John Wonderling

Character Name : Parris Island Recruit and Vietnam Platoon

Original Name : John Wonderling

Gender : Male

Vivian Kubrick

Character Name : News Camera Operator at Mass Grave (uncredited)

Original Name : Vivian Kubrick

Gender : Female

Stanley Kubrick

Character Name : Murphy (voice) (uncredited)

Original Name : Stanley Kubrick

Gender : Male

John Ward

Character Name : TV Camera Operator (uncredited)

Original Name : John Ward

Gender : Male

David Palffy

Character Name : Mass Grave Soldier (uncredited)

Original Name : David Palffy

Gender : Male

Reviews

Ian Beale

@IanBeale

2021-06-23

**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 had already witnessed in Stripes and Police Academy ( "_I could show a movie on your butt, fatso_!"- Lt Harris, Police Academy) is here played out to maximum effect. The fat guy who freezes atop a climbing frame is the central plot here with Matthew Modine's character playing second fiddle to all of the _Leslie Barbara_ stuff. The second half of the movie at least gives us something we were not expecting when a sniper's identity is revealed. - Ian Beale

CRCulver

@CRCulver

2021-06-23

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, though both are seen through the eyes of young United States marine J. T. "Joker" Davis (Matthew Modine). In the first act, Davis makes his way through Marine basic training with a motley group of other recruits under the hellish command of gunnery sergeant Hartmann (R. Lee Ermey). Joker watches as Hartmann bullies an overweight and dim-witted recruit cruelly nicknamed Gomer Pyle (Vincent D'Onofrio), until Pyle explodes into murderous revenge. In the second act, now set in Vietnam where Joker is doing a tour of duty as a military journalist, the protagonist and his fellow Marines find themselves on the front line during the Tet Offensive and Joker witnesses firsthand the savagery of war. Few films consist of such drastically opposed parts that differ in setting and tone and don’t have any overlapping characters besides the protagonist (and one minor character from the boot camp scenes). Full Metal Jacket has often disappointed viewers because the first half is so thrilling that it proves a hard act to follow. That's all down to R. Lee Ermey, who actually was a drill instructor during Vietnam and initially served only as a technical consultant before Kubrick decided to let him play the role and improvise. Ermey acts with a white-hot intensity, realism, and brilliantly worded insults and obscenities that no screenwriter could ever have come up with. As a young man, I too felt that the film was a letdown once it moved past the witty quips and goofy camaraderie of the boot camp scenes. With time, however, my appreciation for the film as a whole has only grown. The two-part structure now seems to be a strong yin-yang structure: the first act is a vision of order, while the second is all chaos. Furthermore, the second half is a moving statement of how war is often senseless. Joker and his squad, while on patrol for an enemy they cannot even identify and whose ideology or culture they know hardly anything of, begin to be targeted by a sniper. Several men perish before the sniper is found and neutralized, and all that death is pointless: it doesn't contribute in any way to victory for either side. The brutality of World War I trench warfare, where dozens of men could perish for merely a foot of conquered ground, is shown to have persisted through the American quagmire in Southeast Asia. That said, the film does have its flaws. One is the unrealistic depiction of the Vietnamese landscape. Kubrick had a great fear or dislike of foreign travel, and he insisted on shooting the whole film in East London. Having merely a few palm trees shipped in is a poor replacement for a real Southeast Asian shooting location with its humidity and insects, and in the scene that is meant to show a lively Vietnamese town square Kubrick obviously had the same few cars driving around in circles. It's strange how a director who was generally so perfectionist, could be so careless about locales (this only got worse with his next and last film, Eyes Wide Shut, with its inauthentic stage set New York City). There are also some anachronisms that this director and his technical advisors should have noticed. Still, even a flawed Kubrick film is classic cinema.

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

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 of the talented director, Stanley Kubrick. For the first part we are subjected to the training regime inflicted on wet behind the ears boys, boys soon to become Marines out in the harshness of the Vietnam War. This is real dehumanising stuff, frighteningly essayed by the brilliance of drill instructor R Lee Ermey's performance. We know, see and feel that the boys are primed to be killing machines, unemotional killing machines at that, with Kubrick astutely weaving the brutality of camp into the moral quandary that was the war itself. One particular recruit, Private Gomer (a heartfelt and unnervingly great Vincent D'Onofrio) is the film, and Gustav Hasford's (writer of the novel and co screenwriter here) point of reference in this incredible first half. It's with this strand that "Jacket" burns itself into the soul of the viewer, to hopefully set us up for what will be Private "Joker's" (Matthew Modine) preparation for the Vietnam conflict. Then it's that second half... Where do we go from here? We already know that "Joker" and his mentally brutalised colleagues have been stripped of their basic humanity. Soldiers primed to kill, it's harsh, but true. But Kubrick has already chilled our blood and bludgeoned us repeatedly courtesy of the "Boot Camp" set up. Modine's (who isn't strong enough to carry the picture) "Joker" is now the film's axis, a clever, most definitely articulate character, who is thrust into the murky and muddled battle of the Tet Offensive, yeah and so? All it amounts to is a prolonged series of rationale and philosophical musings on the false war. Kubrick even shifting to safe mode with a clumsy narration segment spouted by "Joker". Full Metal Jacket is a truly fine film, but it's not the brilliant one it really should have been. If one can take the time to venture deeper with the second half, then it doesn't deliver on the already made point promise of the first part. Technically it's flawless, incredibly designed, with Douglas Milsome's cinematography stunningly effective. But I'll maintain to my final day that Full Metal Jacket finished up as being bloody and pretty instead of being a poignant and horrifying masterpiece. 7/10