Jarhead (2005)
4 August 1970, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA
4 August 1972, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 June 1954, San Mateo, California, USA
10 November 1969, Ramtha, Jordan
20 October 1978, Evanston, Illinois, USA
January 8 in Columbus, Ohio, USA
15 April 1983, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 September 1959
16 January 1974, Long Island, New York, USA
25 March 1974, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
30 December 1985, Torrance, California, USA
29 November 1982, Speake, Alabama, USA
21 April 1982, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
18 April 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 July 1951, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
September 24, 2007
As a depressive riff on Generation X's first war...it's exceptionally well-crafted.
December 09, 2005
Jarhead is utterly predictable (boys endure tough training; boys encounter another culture and are baffled), studded with first-rate performances.
November 04, 2005
Director Sam Mendes' third screen outing pretty well nails Swofford's tone, which was mordant without being disrespectful, and, in fact, is begrudgingly reverent of the Corps.
July 14, 2007
What little statement the film makes revolves around the absurdity of these men, trained to shoot with ultimate precision, and never given the chance to fire off a round.
April 29, 2009
For some it's an anti-war message, for others it's just a non-biased portrait of a man who never went to war despite being in the military during war time.
February 09, 2006
The film's strong suit is vagueness, presenting combat as a semi-surreal state of ignorant expectation and dislocated experience: these warriors loll in the desert awaiting action or trying to make sense of its consequences.
December 06, 2005
Screenwriter William Broyles, Jr., a former Vietnam pilot and Newsweek editor, connects reasonably well with the material, but American Beauty director Sam Mendes has a tendency to smooth out the rough edges, and the film goes flat as month-old soda.
January 15, 2008
Sporadically entertaining, and ultimately pointless -- although that seems to be its agenda right from the start.
November 04, 2005
What's so good about the movie is Gyllenhaal's refusal to show off; he doesn't seem jealous of the camera's attention when it goes to others and is content, for long stretches, to serve simply as a prism though which other young men can be observed.
July 10, 2007
As time passes, waiting for orders becomes like waiting for Godot, an absurdist tragicomedy of frustration, madness and masculinity gone awry.
November 07, 2005
This is a very strong film with really good performances.
