Full Metal Jacket (DVD, 1987, NEW / SEALED)  Starring: Matthew Modine

"The best war movie ever made!" - Jay Scott, Toronto Globe and Mail

Director Stanley Kubrick rips the skin from the face of war to expose the dehumanizing effect of the military on the people fed to its emotional meat grinder in Full Metal Jacket. Through the eyes of an 18-year-old recruit--from his first days in the seeming hell of Marine Corps boot camp as his superiors try to strip of him his individuality and re-create him as a Marine, to the hell of the 1968 Tet offensive, Kubrick reveals the damage done to the collective human soul by the inhumanity of war. Based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford.

The action is savage, the story unsparing, the dialogue spiked with scathing humor.  Full Metal Jacket, from its rigors of basic training to its nightmare of combat in Hue City, scores a Cinematic direct hit.