For more about Full Metal Jacket 4K and the Full Metal Jacket 4K Blu-ray release, see Full Metal Jacket 4K Blu-ray Review published by Randy Miller III on September 13, 2020 where this Blu-ray release scored 4. Here are tons of interviews with Matthew Modine and the rest of the cast, discussing the making of the film, shooting on location, working with Kubrick, the themes, and characters. S. Marines—Matthew Modine’s “Joker” in particular—from their first day of boot camp to combat in Vietnam. Blacks are often deep, but sometimes more gray looking due to the extensive use of smoke, fog, and other atmospherics on set. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

This new remaster shows off a great level of detail, with clear textures on sets and costumes, but the HDR (High Dynamic Range) grade is a bit of a mixed bag.

Low Frequency Extension: Bass is usually reserved for score and music cues, but explosions, helicopters, and some gunfire make their presence known too. Over the course of this film, you’ll see how that war is hell just as the phrase goes and what it can do in terms of desensitizing the soldiers along the way. There’s no happy ending for poor Pyle – or for most of the characters – but his final moments are incredibly tense, aided by D’Onofrio’s incredible performance (he even gets the iconic ‘Kubrick stare’ and Abigail Mead’s eerie score. Once we got to a battlefield, the soundscape opened up and provided a lot of appropriately-placed sound.

Back to the film grain, the reason you’ll see so much more of it here is that they’ve not only respectively left it but now with the high bitrates the 4K UHD Blu-ray format can run you’ll be able to see the fine grain come through so much more visibly.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. First, with the traditional image comparisons (below) and then via a 4K (2160p) slideshow video I’ve made and put on the site’s YouTube Channel (further below). Even one of his superior officers questions this choice later in the film, as well as gives him an earful for doing so. They dominate the highly memorable first half of the movie with some electric dialogue - Ermey's alone including some of the most quotable lines in movie history. Some sequences look stunning – like the scene where Joker, ‘Animal Mother’ and the platoon take on a sniper in a ruined building, or the night-time scenes in the barracks, or the colourful hues of the early morning sky – while others can look a little flat, with the occasional highlight (the reflections on Joker’s glasses, fire, etc.

The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used except with the prior written permission of The Digital Bits, Inc. Joker tells his superior about a rumor that a large-scale attack may be launched during the Tet holiday. Overall, this new 4K Blu-ray release of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket feels slightly lacking due to the aforementioned issues, which aren’t subtle in being missed, especially if you’re hoping for a ‘definitive release of the film – as everything appears to have been imported over from earlier DVD and Blu-ray releases. Both Modine and Baldwin deliver some of their best work, but it still pales in comparison to the opening scenes. Dialogue is mostly clean and clear, but there’s a bit of light distortion that can be heard in the second part of the film (starting at about 48 minutes in).

The original negative was used and Warner provided three HDR variations for your viewing pleasure: HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision.

Joker tries to keep Pyle in line, but his slowness and lack of physical stamina provide him with a world of verbal and mental abuse. The Kubrick Site is the best resource or collection of resources and articles that I know of, that cover his movies. The film itself plays out like a two-act play with half of the film taking place inside the first day of boot camp, going through graduation.The black level is perfectly solid here, and that’s many thanks to the addition of HDR10 form of high dynamic range. The disc presents a native 3840 x 2160p resolution image in the film's original theatrical aspect ratio of widescreen 1.