Who Dares Wins (film) has been disputed by Kubrick's assistant Anthony Frewin, saying that, "Lloyd, as the gunnery [sergeant] in Full Metal Jacket would say, is blowing smoke up our asses. That film is the antithesis of everything Stanley stood for and believed in." Stewart Lee later described the film as "one of the nastiest films ever made, coming off like Richard Littlejohn writing "The Professionals", married SAS man Collins goes undercover with peaceniks to gallantly probe their firebrand leader [...] only to murder her in cold blood later. Fairport Convention appear as some kind of beardo commie new wave band, playing a weird
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