Jarhead
Germany, United States
2005
125 Min
Color
2.35:1
Arabic, Latin, Spanish, English
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Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows ‘Swoff’ (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper’s rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don’t understand against an enemy they can’t see for a cause they don’t fully fathom. –Official Site
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Caden Cotard
20Jun11
An incendiary, pitch-black look at the first Gulf War. Jake Gyllenhaal is brilliant here, jumping from amicable to terrifying to pathetic all in one go. It’s also funny as hell. Where The Hurt Locker was more of a fictional documentary, just presenting events, Jarhead has a clear political commentary, in the form of Gyllenhaal’s voiceover. Also, he’s shirtless a good percentage of the time. Always a plus.
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IndyLIVE
7Mar11
An admirable film with fearless performances and unbelievably evocative cinematography (can we expect anything less from Roger Deakins?). This is a challenging movie and I don't like that so many people dismiss it. I'm not into war movies, I don't particularly like the army, but this film offered a lot for me to think about. Mainly, the reality of being in a war zone. It's not all shooting and explosions, you know.
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Jarhead REVIEW
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Despite being inherently watchable, the strange thing about “Jarhead” is the sense of cinematic déjà vu that comes along with it. For the first ninety or so minutes of its 123 minute running time, it goes
Jarhead REVIEW
By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
Despite being inherently watchable, the strange thing about “Jarhead” is the sense of cinematic déjà vu that comes along with it. For the first ninety or so minutes of its 123 minute running time, it goes
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This is not Rambo time
By Dzimas on November 3, 2011
Leave it to Sam Mendes to reduce a visceral set of memoirs of the Persian Gulf War to little more than a montage of music videos. It is compelling enough since Mendes has a good sense of action, keeping… read review
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