15 Most Underrated War Movies Of All Time

15. Full Metal Jacket

Not only an underrated war film but likely the single most underrated entry into The Shining helmer Stanley Kubrick’s CV, this unforgettable Vietnam flick benefits from a pair of career best performances courtesy of Vincent D’Onofrio and R Lee Erney as the gradually unravelling Sergeant “Gomer Pyle” and his heartless drill sergeant respectively.

The first half of the flick is unbearably tense and eventually as blackly hilarious as it is pointlessly tragic, whilst the meandering second section is alternately pointless, hopeless, and brutal—not unlike the conflict which the film is attempting to convey.

Winding viewers up to boiling point before leaving them lost in an aimless firefight, Kubrick reflects the American experience of the Vietnamese invasion on film and leaves audiences as lost, confused, and uncertain as the public felt after its eventual bloody end.