Hawk Films Hawk Films Hawk Films was a British film production company formed by Stanley Kubrick for his 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove". He also used it as production company for "A Clockwork Orange" (1971), "Barry Lyndon" (1975), "The Shining" (1980) and "Full Metal Jacket" (1987). He later formed two subsidiaries that were also named after birds of prey: In addition to Hawk Films, Peregrine Productions was involved in the production of "Barry Lyndon" and "The Shining"; while Harrier Films was involved in the production of "Full Metal Jacket" together with his main production company Stanley Kubrick Productions, which he set up for
Full Metal Jacket reviews. Reviewers generally reacted favorably to the cast, Ermey in particular, and the film's first act in recruit training, but several reviews were critical of the latter part of the film set in Vietnam and what was considered a "muddled" moral message in the finale. It ranks on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills. Richard Corliss of "Time" called the film a "technical knockout", praising "the dialogue's wild, desperate wit; the daring in choosing a desultory skirmish to make a point about war's pointlessness", and "the fine, large performances of almost every actor", believing, at the time, that Ermey and D'Onofrio