Full Metal Jacket as effectively without him". The review also preferred the opening training to the later Vietnam sequence, calling it "far more striking than the second and longer section". Film4 commented that the film ends abruptly but felt "it demonstrates just how clear and precise the director's vision could be when he resisted a fatal tendency for indulgence". Film4 concluded: ""Full Metal Jacket" ranks with "Dr. Strangelove" as one of Kubrick's very best." Jonathan Rosenbaum of the "Chicago Reader" called it "Elliptical, full of subtle inner rhymes … and profoundly moving, this is the most tightly crafted Kubrick film since "Dr. Strangelove",
Adam Baldwin Adam Baldwin Adam Baldwin (born February 27, 1962) is an American actor. He starred in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) as Animal Mother, as well as in the television series "Firefly" and its continuation film "Serenity" as Jayne Cobb. His roles include Stillman in "Ordinary People" (1980), Colonel John Casey in "Chuck", and Mike Slattery in "The Last Ship". Appearing in a large number of films since 1980, Baldwin rose to prominence as the troubled outcast Ricky Linderman in "My Bodyguard" (1980) and moved on to bigger roles in "D.C. Cab" (1983), "Full Metal Jacket" (1987), "Predator 2" (1990), Deadbolt (1992),