What happened to the Kubrick who used to slip in sly, subtle jokes and little editing tricks? This may be his worst movie.

Full Metal Jacket is violent, caustic, ironic, and cold, an amoral object formed from a camera gliding majestically across slow-motion carnage while refusing to blink an eye or shed a tear.

Kubrick is trying to make a movie about madness and chaos, but he won't give in to the chaos.

Full Metal Jacket initiates its viewers into the realities of war, which are also, supposedly, the realities of being a man.