R. Lee Ermey, Estelle Harris, and Ned Beatty, to name a few. Rather than retire Combat Carl or have him serve solely as background visual fodder, filmmaker Pete Docter & Co. have chosen to go the ...

But the performance garnering significant acclaim is R. Lee Ermey’s portrayal as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. A film enthusiast praised the movie, saying: "A fantastic satire of the Vietnam War ...

Split between the harrowing boot-camp tyranny of R. Lee Ermey’s drill instructor and the urban violence of the 1968 Tet Offensive, “Full Metal Jacket” fuses both ends of the war machine.