Full Metal Jacket the US and other countries. Warner Home Video released the 25th anniversary edition on Blu-ray on August 7, 2012. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively collected reviews to give the film a score of 93% based on reviews from 76 critics and an average rating of 8.3/10. The summary states, "Intense, tightly constructed, and darkly comic at times, Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" may not boast the most original of themes, but it is exceedingly effective at communicating them." Another aggregator Metacritic gave it a score of 76 out of 100, which indicates a "generally favorable" response, based on 19
The Jacket in the United Kingdom as "The Jacket" and in the United States of America as "The Star Rover". Director Maybury has said that the film is "loosely based on a true story that became a Jack London story". The true story is that of Ed Morrell, who told London about San Quentin prison's inhumane use of tight straitjackets. "The Jacket" opened on March 4, 2005, and grossed $2,723,682 on opening weekend, with a peak release of 1,331 theaters in the United States. The film went on to gross $6,303,762 domestically, for a total of $21,126,225 worldwide. "The Jacket" garnered mixed