Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento, enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp, but makes it through as a sniper, paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out, and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom, adrenaline, heat, worry about his girlfriend finding someone else, losing it and nearly killing a mate, demotion, latrine cleaning, faulty gas masks, and desert footb... (Full plot summary below)
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Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento, enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp, but makes it through as a sniper, paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out, and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom, adrenaline, heat, worry about his girlfriend finding someone else, losing it and nearly killing a mate, demotion, latrine cleaning, faulty gas masks, and desert football, Desert Storm begins. In less than five days, it's over, but not before Swoff sees burned bodies, flaming oil derricks, an oil-drenched horse, and maybe a chance at killing. Where does all the testosterone go?
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| Daily Telegraph (UK)Catherine ShoardGyllenhaal can, in fact, act, so the blame must fall elsewhere for his dim performance, all topless tears and soulful voiceovers. The same goes for Peter Sarsgaard, Chris Cooper and Jamie Foxx, three good actors forced into contortions of theatrics. |
| eFilmCritic.comUri Lessing...manages to avoid clichés...and present a side of war never offered before by Hollywood: a side that hundreds of thousands of American troops are experiencing right now. |
| Orlando WeeklyIan GreyWe can't argue with the film's tagline: 'Welcome to the suck.' |
| eFilmCritic.comCollin SouterA war movie that defies the genre by expressing that even without heavy combat, the war remains a part of these men forever. |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanJarhead is a powerful, darkly funny look at the toll that comes when preparedness collides head-on with boredom. |
| Charlotte WeeklySean O'ConnellThe worst recruitment tool the Marines could have hoped for. |
| Bangor Daily News (Maine)Christopher SmithA fine, sometimes genuinely tense war movie that doesn't deify war or the Marines at its core. |
| Now Playing MagazineBrent SimonGrippingly flirts with peeling back the layers of truth on these subjugated capital-I issues... |
| Boulder WeeklyThomas DelapaFor Swofford, the war was one long and losing battle against boredom. For anyone caught in the draft of this blustery movie, the experience will be much the same. |
| Reel Times: Reflections on CinemaMark PfeifferJarhead gives voice to the humor and horror of military service during wartime, the things that those who served will not and cannot convey to civilians. |
