The Washington Post, August 7th, 1988
Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. 1987. R. CC. (Warner, Hi-Fi stereo, 116 Min., $89.95; LV disk, CX stereo, $34.98) "Full Metal Jacket" is a brilliantly eccentric piece of movie-making that plays better on video for the discerning viewer than it did in American grindhouses, where its bolder ironies apparently did not satisfy the blood-and-special-effects lusts of the action-flick crowd. Although reportedly more of a box office success overseas, Kubrick's stylish meditation on the Vietnam war, and on war in general, does no...
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