Full Metal Jacket

A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 in Hue, Vietnam.Regarded widely as one of the greatest war films ever made as well as one of Stanley Kubrick's finest works.