A lot of the dialogue ( This is my rifle etc ) and the boot camp intro seemed lifted from Full Metal Jacket. Even the fly nature of the main protagonist. But after half an hour I felt nostalgic for that old classic. This film was nowhere near as good. I seriously doubt indiscipline is this bad in the USMC. A lot more of them would get killed by accident. Or by their own side. The firing the guns into the air to the rap party backdrop was pure hokum. Why was knobhead (sorry jarhead )shown as being a Camus reader for all of five minutes, and then later shown to be a total moron for the rest of the film ? Sci Fi is accused of being all Science and with thin character development. This was a supposedly factual film, but despite that had 2D characters that were worthy of the worst Sci Fi. By the end I didn't care if any of them lived or died they were so irritating and boring.
Review of Jarhead
