Full Metal Jacket as well as the most horrific." "Variety" called the film an "intense, schematic, superbly made" drama "loaded with vivid, outrageously vulgar military vernacular that contributes heavily to the film's power", but felt that it never develops "a particularly strong narrative." The cast performances were all labeled "exceptional" with Modine being singled out as "embodying both what it takes to survive in the war and a certain omniscience." Gilbert Adair, writing in a review for "Full Metal Jacket", commented that "Kubrick's approach to language has always been of a reductive and uncompromisingly deterministic nature. He appears to view it as the
The Rainbow Jacket The Rainbow Jacket The Rainbow Jacket is a 1954 British Ealing Studios drama film, produced by Michael Relph, directed by Basil Dearden, and featuring Robert Morley, Kay Walsh, Bill Owen, Honor Blackman and Sid James. A champion jockey, having forfeited his own career by taking a bribe, takes a young rider under his wing. The film premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on 27 May 1954, and the reviewer for "The Times" wrote that, ""It is, then, an entertaining film, a film in love with racing and yet not quite so devotedly so as to refrain from suggesting