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This first person account of the first Gulf War scores with its performances and cinematography but lacks an emotional thrust.
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Gyllenhaal 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. January 16, 2018 | Full Review…
Gyllenhaal 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.
Catherine Shoard
It's another fine Gyllenhaal performance, but not really enough, because his suffering doesn't amount to a hill of Kuwaiti sand in the end. February 10, 2006 | Full Review…
It's another fine Gyllenhaal performance, but not really enough, because his suffering doesn't amount to a hill of Kuwaiti sand in the end.
Paul Byrnes
The film's strong suit is vagueness, presenting combat as a semi-surreal state of ignorant expectation and dislocated experience: these warriors loll in the desert awaiting action or trying to make sense of its consequences. February 9, 2006 | Full Review…
The film's strong suit is vagueness, presenting combat as a semi-surreal state of ignorant expectation and dislocated experience: these warriors loll in the desert awaiting action or trying to make sense of its consequences.
Ben Walters
Jarhead takes a perverse pleasure in confounding your expectations of what a war movie should be. January 17, 2006 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Jarhead takes a perverse pleasure in confounding your expectations of what a war movie should be.
Paul Arendt
Stunning to look at and to listen to, with elegantly chosen pop songs unspooling on the soundtrack under each fresh new horror. January 14, 2006 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Stunning to look at and to listen to, with elegantly chosen pop songs unspooling on the soundtrack under each fresh new horror.
Peter Bradshaw
Jarhead is utterly predictable (boys endure tough training; boys encounter another culture and are baffled), studded with first-rate performances. December 9, 2005
Jarhead is utterly predictable (boys endure tough training; boys encounter another culture and are baffled), studded with first-rate performances.
Ken Tucker
Jarhead aims to provide the eternal reason why young men are drawn to war, like moths to the flame. Swofford and director Sam Mendes stress that to most young GIs, even the most fervently created antiwar film is a fighting man's pornography. May 7, 2020 | Full Review…
Jarhead aims to provide the eternal reason why young men are drawn to war, like moths to the flame. Swofford and director Sam Mendes stress that to most young GIs, even the most fervently created antiwar film is a fighting man's pornography.
David Lamble
These soldiers wanted action, any action, just to feel justified for the life they left behind and Mendes does a great job of showing that anguish. The cast is excellent, too. November 19, 2019 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
These soldiers wanted action, any action, just to feel justified for the life they left behind and Mendes does a great job of showing that anguish. The cast is excellent, too.
Micheal Compton
A tedious film with an utterly unlikable protagonist. June 5, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
A tedious film with an utterly unlikable protagonist.
Matthew Lucas
Slick military faux-criticism September 1, 2009 | Full Review…
Slick military faux-criticism
Fernando F. Croce
For some it's an anti-war message, for others it's just a non-biased portrait of a man who never went to war despite being in the military during war time. April 29, 2009 | Full Review…
For some it's an anti-war message, for others it's just a non-biased portrait of a man who never went to war despite being in the military during war time.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Sporadically entertaining, and ultimately pointless -- although that seems to be its agenda right from the start. January 15, 2008 | Full Review…
Sporadically entertaining, and ultimately pointless -- although that seems to be its agenda right from the start.
Garth Franklin
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