Review – Jarhead

I dislike movies like this for challenging my illusions about the elite forces of the US military. I’d like to believe that Marine Corps snipers and their peers are highly-trained experts who bring a degree of professionalism to their jobs. However, here they’re portrayed as little more than everyday mooks you’d see flipping burgers for a living, getting drunk at the ballpark and lying around their parents’ basements watching porn. At least at its primary function – a recruiting ad – it does a great job of selling everyday mooks on the notion of joining the Corps. See if desperate