Jarhead
Drama • R • 2005 • 2 hr 3 min
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An incredible movie showing the mentality of a marine soldier on a day to day basis.
Amazing movie that really shows the intricacies and crazy emotional up and downs of war. Acting was phenomenal as well.
In my top 3 war movies for sure. The acting in this movie is top tier.
Brutal depiction of war, soldier mentality and cultural difference.
Really liked it. Enjoyed the more day to day life of a soldier take. Was anice change of pace from most war movies
Great characters and emotive scenes. A flawed narrator that you still find great sympathy for. Not an easy ending but the right one!
An excellent war film that puts you through a first person experience. Jamie Foxx and Gylenhaal carry this
Pretty good war movie that shows with how a soldier changes mentally. 7/10
A lengthy, brutal, and gripping War Drama that makes you feel like you’re actually in the suck. It’s an absolute must-watch.
Don't know the insanity of war: it may be a revelation. If you know the underbelly of war is hidden by the MSM, nothing is surprising.
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Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a Navy SEAL flags down their convoy and enlists the unit on an operation of international importance: they must help an Afghan woman famous for her defiance of the Taliban escape the country. Without tanks or air support, Merrimette and his team will need all the courage and firepower they can muster to fight their way across the war-torn country and shepherd the woman to safety.
Corporal Evan Albright joined the elite Marine Corps Security Guards to save the world and see some action-not necessarily in that order. But his first assignment, protecting a U. S. Embassy in a seemingly safe Middle Eastern capitol, relegates his unit to wrangling "gate groupies" protesting outside the compound and honing their marksmanship by playing video games. So Albright and his team are caught off guard when well-armed and well-trained militants launch a surprise attack aimed at killing an informant in the embassy. Heavily out-gunned, they will have to muster all the courage and fire power they can as their once routine assignment spirals into all-out war.
Major Ronan Jackson, an accomplished fighter pilot for the Israel Defense Forces and son of a U.S. Senator, is shot down while flying through Syrian airspace. After miraculously surviving the crash, Jackson is taken captive by a group of Hezbollah militiamen. A squad of elite soldiers, led by Gunnery Sergeant Dave Torres, risk their own lives in the hopes of saving an ally they've never met.
