Full Metal Jacket vs Timbuktu
Full Metal Jacket has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7/10 for Timbuktu). Timbuktu is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 57m. Full Metal Jacket is the older of the two (1987 against 2014). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Full Metal Jacket
Timbuktu| Full Metal Jacket | Timbuktu | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.1/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 1987 | 2014 |
| Length | 1h 57m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama, War | Drama, War |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Stanley Kubrick | Abderrahmane Sissako |
| Main cast | Adam Baldwin, Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Ed O'Ross | Ibrahim Ahmed, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed, Abel Jafri, Kettly Noël |
Synopsis
Full Metal Jacket
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Timbuktu
Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.
Where to watch
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