"Me so HORNY. Me love you long time." If you haven't yet seen this masterpiece from Stanley Kubrick, I advise you to go out and purchase/rent/borrow it at once. Surreal, funny, sad, gross, and downright weird, Kubrick succeeded in making a Vietnam War film that is neither pro-war (like The Green Berets) nor anti-war (like just about every other Vietnam War flick that is not The Green Berets). R. Lee Ermey, who actually fought in Vietnam and served as a drill sergeant, is downright stunning as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, who pushes the Marine recruits he trains to their absolute limits in an attempt to get them fit for combat. The first half of the film details this training, and is seen through the eyes of the young man nicknamed "Joker" (Matthew Modine). Ending (quite literally) with a bang, the outstanding first part leads to an equally engaging second half, which features Joker in Vietnam as a reporter/rifleman. The film ends with an odd shootout with a Viet Cong sniper, after which Joker and the other marines march through a burning town singing the "Mickey Mouse March."
Rating: 100/100
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