‘You write “Born to Kill” on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What’s that supposed to be? Some kind of sick joke?’ Director Stanley Kubrick felt Full Metal Jacket ‘was neither antiwar or pro-war’. Shooting in the urban jungle of the yet to be developed Docklands of London makes this Vietnam a very different proposition to Coppola’s or Stone’s. Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey and Vincent D’Onofrio provide indelible performances.