Sir, yes Sir!

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Directed by Stanley Kubrick this film based on the novel “The Short-Timers” stars Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey and Arliss Howard. New recruits join the Marine Corp during the Vietnam war.

This film focuses on how the military turns a man into a killing machine and the consequences that has, in this regard it works really well putting it in stark contrast to all the recruitment films of the 50s and 60s. What I like most is that despite the attempts by the powers that be to dehumanise the protagonist when he finally does kill at the end of the film it is the most humane of actions. As with any Kubrick film the direction is good and it is no mean feat to manage to pull off a film set in Vietnam but film in London.

5/5