Review of Johnny Got His Gun (1971) by Cy A — 05 Jun 2007

Most tripy and symbolic movie I have ever seen.

This review of Johnny Got His Gun (1971) was written by Cy A on 05 Jun 2007.

Johnny Got His Gun has generally received very positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Johnny Got His Gun

Review of Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

By The Phantom C (176) on 17 Dec 2012

Johnny Got His Gun is a very dark, depressing, and relevant film. Though some of the performances are slightly awkward…

Read Review

Review of Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

By Janne M (43) on 01 Aug 2010

This is very remarkable movie on many ways... It was very unknown movie before certain One and after that it became kind of cult item…

Read Review

Review of Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

By Jenna I (601) on 25 Jul 2015

It's a hard movie to shoot when your narrator is meant to be deaf, mute and blind…

Read Review

Review of Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

By Christian P (178) on 27 Sep 2013

This is one of those movies that's hard to watch, but impossible to forget. Not a movie I could see very often…

Read Review

Review of Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

By Nathan J (192) on 25 Mar 2012

I've read the book at least 5 times and watched the movie too many times to count. It's in my top 5 of favorite books/films…

Read Review

Review of Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

By Dani F (65) on 07 Apr 2010

The movie stars Joe…

Read Review

Review of Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

By Jérôme V (65) on 12 Jul 2011

Absolutely fantastic and haunting......the film that Metallica's One was based on.....also noticed that the mores code sound (SOS) was made…

Read Review

Review of Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

By Sam S (1,174) on 06 May 2011

I have watched enough 'pacifist' war films in the past, but I can safely say that Johnny Got His Gun is the most emotionally penetrating of…

Read Review

Review of Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

By Ken T (997) on 01 Aug 2010

Trumbo's own film adaptation of his truly disturbing book…

Read Review

Review of Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

By Andrew O (949) on 20 Nov 2014

The last 15 minutes are musicless, fixated on the dread and hopelessness of the character's situation…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of The African Queen (1952)

By Heidi* E (39) on 12 Aug 2008

I managed to watch full 10 minutes of this movie and all I heard was 'mr. allnut ,yes miss? mr. allnut, yes miss…

Read Review

Review of Babel (2006)

By Finnigan37 (16) on 22 Feb 2013

This is one of the five worst films I have ever seen. Insanely boring and pointless. Dullness for the sake of dullness…

Read Review

Review of Everything Is Illuminated (2005)

By Travis (14) on 18 Sep 2005

This movie was pretty pathetic. Though that may be because of how much I loved the book. I found it hard to sit through…

Read Review

Review of The Dirty Dozen (1967)

By Pj P (157) on 24 Nov 2007

Hero'izing scum of the earth, no thankyou…

Read Review

Review of Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

By Dylan K (291) on 25 Nov 2017

Looks like it was shot by the second unit from The A Team…

Read Review

Review of The Miracle Worker (1962)

By Harry W (1,900) on 02 Apr 2016

Winning Anne Bancroft an Academy Award for the story of the iconic Helen Keller, The Miracle Worker sounded like an inspiring tale…

Read Review

Review of Beyond Silence (1996)

By Ryan T (1,220) on 25 Oct 2008

Vielleicht wÃ¼rde es geheiÃ?en, Jenseits des Kitsch, trotzdem war die Musik nicht schlecht…

Read Review

Review of The Wild Child (1970)

By Nicolas Rapold (488) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Dec 2013

Rather than present a clichéd fall from grace, Truffaut elicits ambivalence by closely tracking the Enlightened scientist’s optimism; after…

Read Review

Review of 8½ (1963)

By Gracjanski (417) on 01 May 2021

Extremely boring movie with a surrealistic atmosphere and weird characters. I couldnt find any humour also…

Read Review

Review of Ray (2004)

By Nateblum7 (3) on 31 Jul 2021

This is the worst thing I could have ever done to myself…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Interstellar

2014

83%1,261 Reviews

The Voyeurs

2021

58%19 Reviews

The Prodigy

2019

53%39 Reviews

Alien: Covenant

2017

61%1,909 Reviews

Parasite

2019

88%251 Reviews

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

82%272 Reviews

Barbarian

2022

72%115 Reviews

Purple Hearts

2022

56%11 Reviews

Where the Crawdads Sing

2022

63%92 Reviews

Upgrade

2018

76%696 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Johnny Got His Gun

1971

75%209 Reviews

The Legend of Bagger Vance

2000

64%552 Reviews

The Fox and the Hound

1981

73%646 Reviews

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

2015

59%577 Reviews

Small Soldiers

1998

61%544 Reviews

Dark City

1950

73%662 Reviews

Radio Days

1987

75%273 Reviews

Cats and Dogs

2013

52%412 Reviews

Don't Come Knocking

2005

61%149 Reviews

Paprika

2006

80%758 Reviews