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An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.
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| USA TodayMike ClarkAn intense, schematic, superbly made Vietnam War drama. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumElliptical, full of subtle inner rhymes...and profoundly moving, this is the most tightly crafted Kubrick film since "Dr. Strangelove," as well as the most horrific; the first section alone accomplishes most of what "The Shining" failed to do. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittMay be the best war movie ever made...Different is Kubrick's artistry and control, and his almost perverse, but philosophically progressive, refusal to impart to chaos a coherent narrative contour. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonThe most eloquent and exacting vision of the war to date... Inspired with technique rather than overblown with it, Kubrick, the filmmaker's filmmaker, lays one on you. |
| NewsweekJack KrollKubrick's harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric new film about Vietnam, is going to puzzle, anger and (I hope) fascinate audiences as much as any film he has made to date... A film of immense and very rare imagination. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrA perversely fascinating movie--one that answers no questions, offers no hope and has little meaning. In a way this is perfect for what the film has to say about war, but you find yourself numbed and apathetic as the film progresses. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheila BensonWe've seen it all before, most recently in "Gardens of Stone," most romantically in "An Officer and a Gentleman," but never more elegantly than here as Kubrick sustains the athletic ballet of obstacle courses and white-glove inspections for a breathtaking 40 minutes. |
| San Francisco ChronicleJudy StoneThe footage on the Paris Island obstacle course is powerful. But Full Metal Jacket is uncertain where to go, and the movie's climax, which Kubrick obviously intends to be a mighty moral revelation, seems phoned in from earlier war pictures. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDuane ByrgeWhile far too much of the film is staged discussion and smug political jousting, there is savage and lethal black irony. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairThen there's Mac himself, a puppet which couldn't possibly look more like a puppet (a bad, shoddy puppet at that). |