Yes, LIFE...it makes even the darkest of micks' hearts flutter.

JARHEAD (2005) - ****/5

(No synopsis needed. :p )

Advertized and highly placed as a heavy Oscar contender, Sam Mendes' JARHEAD is a pretty good picture...but its surely not an Oscar movie, though considering the winners in the last few years, it MIGHT have a good chance afterall.

Superb work from Jake DONNIE DARKO Gyllenhaal and Jamie BOOTY CALL Foxx in a picture without the melodrama....yet some poignant personal moments that truely felt like the source material came from within the thoughts of a man who went into "the suck". I mean....JARHEAD may have actually made me never think of Cimino's DEER HUNTER in the same light ever again.