Full Metal Jacket 4K Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		5.0
Video		4.0
Audio		4.0
Extras		2.5
Overall		4.0

Full Metal Jacket 4K Blu-ray Movie Review

Warner Brothers and Best Buy have collaborated on a store exclusive UHD SteelBook release for Director Stanley Kubrick's 1987 Vietnam war film 'Full Metal Jacket.' The disc and digital content is identical to that found in the wide release. See the 'Special Features and Extras' section of the review below for more on the SteelBook's look and feel.

Full Metal Jacket 4K Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

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Full Metal Jacket 4K Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

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Full Metal Jacket 4K Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Warner Bothers' SteelBook is fairly smooth but not so slick and glossy as to readily display handling fingerprints. The front panel prominently features Joker in a face-forward headshot. He's wearing his helmet with "Born to Kill" written on it. The helmet straps dangle from either side. There's a flat look on his face, though his eyes are obscured by sunglasses. On the glasses is a reflection of several palm trees in the distance, the world around them orange and billowing with smoke. It's the only real color on the front; the rest is simply a depressed blue color with slight tonal variations throughout. The rear panel is essentially a larger image of what Joker is looking at: his perspective shot. The scene in his glasses is seen center and top while war-torn buildings line the sides and a littered street the bottom half, all in that same blueish color from the front. An unobtrusive billing block fills the bottom quarter or so of the scene. The spine is a solid dark blue color, more or less similar to the main coloring on the front and rear. The film's title, with Kubrick's name attached and in orange, runs much of the length, the title larger than the director's name. A Warner Brothers logo appears at the bottom.

Inside, the digital copy code is tucked underneath the left-hand-side tabs. The two discs, one UHD and one Blu-ray, are situated on the right in staggered-stacked formation. The inner print is a two-panel spread that features a still from the film featuring Animal Mother, Cowboy, Joker, Rafterman, and several others crouched against an exterior wall in Huế.

For full coverage of the on-disc supplemental content, please click here; note that this link points to the 2007 Blu-ray. There are no extras on the UHD disc.

Full Metal Jacket 4K Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

At one point in the film, Joker talks about the "dichotomy of man." Perhaps the SteelBook is reflecting the "dichotomy of war," showing color (albeit it seems from burning fires) and natural beauty in the reflection but a bleak war image everywhere else. It's a nice SteelBook, including a handsome inner print that easily fills the frame. The UHD picture and sound are good. Shame no new extras are included but what's here is fine. Highly recommended.