Stanley Kubrick's penultimate film is the story of conflicted Marine Matthew Modine's basic training experince, followed by his gradual disillusionment in Vietnam. Based on the semi autobiographical novel 'The Short Timers" by Gustav Hasford, Kubrick is famous for his lose adapations so I do wonder how much the movie resembles the book.
This film is most famous for the performance of R. Lee Ermy as the drill sargent, after the opening sequence the film is around 12 to 15 minutes of him yelling, which is honestly great entertainment.
The opening basic training sequence runs around 40 minutes, it is so good that it really overshadows the actual Vietnam stuff, and the Vietnam stuff is still some of the best ever put to film. Glad I finally saw this. ****
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