The first part of the movie entertained me. The instructor seemed quiet authentic, "Paulas" progression was a bit simplistic but interesting and the atmosphere of the boot camp kinda "caught" me. Then in Vietnam i began to wonder why I'm watching this and what it has to do with the first half of the movie. If it was Kubricks idea of showing you that you can only experience war, and not train it, he failed. He just began to bore the hell out of me. No matter how hard i tried i couldn't care about any character, all of them were unbelievable boring and plain. It didn't show me that Vietnam was hell either. Well not more or less hell than i could imagine any other war is. The End was lame and i began staring at the "elapsed time" counter several times. And why the hell is all this concrete burning????
Now i have the feeling that, since FMJ was made in 1989, Kubrick was simply just too late with his Vietnam movie. And thanks to Platoon, Apocalypse now, Deer Hunter etc. everything there was to say has been said already. So Kubrick didn't know what to say and said nothing.
I have to make a formal apology for my bad English. Hopefully it will become better by writing reviews.
Now i have the feeling that, since FMJ was made in 1989, Kubrick was simply just too late with his Vietnam movie. And thanks to Platoon, Apocalypse now, Deer Hunter etc. everything there was to say has been said already. So Kubrick didn't know what to say and said nothing.
I have to make a formal apology for my bad English. Hopefully it will become better by writing reviews.