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  1. Nov 3, 2005 · Powered by JustWatch. "Jarhead" is a war movie that rises above the war and tells a soldier's story. It tells it with the urgency and pointlessness that all men's stories have, because if something has happened to us, then it is important to us no matter how indifferent the world may be. "Four days, four hours, one minute.

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  2. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › 1152567-jarheadJarhead | Rotten Tomatoes

    Nov 4, 2005 · Mar 5, 2021 Full Review David Lamble Bay Area Reporter Jarhead aims to provide the eternal reason why young men are drawn to war, like moths to the flame. Swofford and director Sam Mendes stress ...

    • (199)
    • Sam Mendes
    • R
    • Jake Gyllenhaal
  3. Our review: Parents say ( 5 ): Kids say ( 6 ): This adaptation of a memoir is a smart and beautifully shot -- if bleak -- war movie with very little conventional "war" in it. Jarhead focuses on the ways that authorities rationalize war "scenarios" and train troops to carry out orders that are, on their face, irrational and costly.

    • Sam Mendes
    • Cynthia Fuchs
    • Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard
  4. www.imdb.com › title › tt0418763Jarhead (2005) - IMDb

    Nov 4, 2005 · Jarhead: Directed by Sam Mendes. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Scott MacDonald, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx. A psychological study of Marine's state of mind during the Gulf War.

    • (207K)
    • Biography, Drama, War
    • Sam Mendes
    • 2005-11-04
  5. A superb film by Sam Mendes that gets overlooked. “Every war is different. Every war is the same”. There is a great scene in Jarhead in which Jake Gyllenhaal and his unit of Marines are walking through a Kuwaiti oil field in the night. The retreating Iraqi soldiers have lit the oil wells on fire and a rain of crude oil starts falling around ...

  6. Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 3, 2006. Leslie Felperin Sight & Sound. TOP CRITIC. Jarhead is simultaneously audaciously original and so mired in the clichés it knowingly acknowledges ...

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  8. www.metacritic.com › movie › jarheadJarhead - Metacritic

    Nov 4, 2005 · Jarhead - Metacritic. Summary Laced with dark wit, honest inquisition and episodes that are at once surreal and poignant, tragic and absurd, Jarhead is the film adaptation of Marine Anthony Swofford's bracing memoir that took readers into his disorienting firsthand experience in the Gulf War. (Universal) Biography. Drama.

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