Full Metal Jacket to him. Kubrick read and edited them, and then the team repeated the process. Neither Hasford nor Herr knew how much he had contributed to the screenplay, which led to a dispute over the final credits. Hasford remembers, "We were like guys on an assembly line in the car factory. I was putting on one widget and Michael was putting on another widget and Stanley was the only one who knew that this was going to end up being a car." Herr says the director was not interested in making an anti-war film, but "he wanted to show what war
The Jacket reviews on release; the film has a 44% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's critical consensus being "The Jacket is a case of creepy style over substance", and a 73% audience approval rating. and a 44% average critic rating on the aggregate reviews site Metacritic. The Jacket The Jacket is a 2005 American psychological thriller/horror film directed by John Maybury and starring Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It is partly based on the Jack London novel of the same name (published in the US as "The Star Rover"). Massy Tadjedin wrote the screenplay