Daredevil Star’s 10/10 Anti-War Movie of All Time Officially Sets HBO Max Streaming Record

Vincent D’Onofrio may be preparing to bid Wilson Fisk farewell, but another of his most indelible performances has come roaring back nearly four decades later. Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket debuted at No. 5 on HBO Max’s U.S. movie chart on September 27, immediately cracking the platform’s Top 5 before remaining among its 10 most-watched movies the following day (per FlixPatrol).

Kubrick’s 1987 anti-war nightmare remains a 10/10 and D’Onofrio’s finest movie performance. There is plenty of critical muscle behind that editorial verdict: Full Metal Jacket currently holds 89% from critics and 94% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, while IMDb users have rated it 8.2/10. Also, D’Onofrio has just confirmed that Daredevil: Born Again Season 3 will be his final season as Wilson Fisk on the series, putting one extraordinary career bookend beside another. TVLine reported D’Onofrio’s response to the news.

Full Metal Jacket Earns Every Bit of 10/10

Matthew Modine in a still from Full Metal Jacket | Credits: Warner Bros.

Stanley Kubrick divides Full Metal Jacket into two different infernos. The first follows Marine recruits being systematically broken down under Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, while the second sends Joker (Matthew Modine) into Vietnam. D’Onofrio makes the first half almost impossible to shake. Private Leonard ‘Gomer Pyle’ Lawrence arrives at boot camp vulnerable and physically unprepared before humiliation, abuse, and institutional brutality steadily corrode him.

D’Onofrio gained roughly 70 pounds for Pyle and later recalled how the drastic change affected both filming and the work he was offered afterward. Yet his assessment of the performance remained unequivocal: “I did exactly what I wanted in that movie.” The Los Angeles Times documented D’Onofrio’s experience following his breakthrough role. His preparation went beyond gaining weight. During a 2026 career retrospective with GQ, D’Onofrio revisited Kubrick’s demanding production and the intensity required to create Pyle’s deterioration.

Full Metal Jacket was his first major feature-film role, making Kubrick an intimidating introduction to the machinery of moviemaking. Even getting the part bordered on farce. D’Onofrio was working at New York’s Hard Rock Cafe when friend and eventual co-star Matthew Modine told him Kubrick was casting the movie. After submitting an audition tape, D’Onofrio received a call he assumed was his friends playing a prank and hung up on Kubrick’s camp. They called back (via Decider).

The movie earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, while Kubrick, Michael Herr, and Gustav Hasford were recognized for adapting Hasford’s The Short-Timers. That combination of technical rigor, psychological attrition, and D’Onofrio’s frightening commitment is why the 10/10 verdict earns its place rather than functioning as empty headline hyperbole.

Vincent D’Onofrio Is Preparing to Say Goodbye to Kingpin?

Vincent D’Onofrio in Daredevil: Born Again (2025) | Image via Disney+

Daredevil: Born Again will conclude with Season 3, and Vincent D’Onofrio responded personally to news of the ending on September 23. He promised (via TVLine) fans “some very cool stuff” in the final season before adding:

He debuted opposite Charlie Cox in Netflix’s Daredevil in 2015, before returning as Kingpin in Hawkeye, Echo, and Disney+’s Daredevil: Born Again. Marvel traces Fisk’s MCU appearances. The latest chapter has pushed that rivalry beyond its old criminal-underworld framework. Fisk became mayor of New York City, allowing Born Again to pit Matt Murdock against an adversary whose power is institutional as well as physical. Marvel executive producer Sana Amanat described their relationship in unusually categorical terms (via Disney): 

That creates a delicious symmetry with the movie now surging on HBO Max. Private Pyle is a vulnerable man systematically destroyed by an institution; Wilson Fisk spends much of his life trying to become powerful enough to control one. Nearly four decades separate those performances, yet both demonstrate why D’Onofrio can make menace feel disconcertingly human.

Does Full Metal Jacket deserve a 10/10 among anti-war movies, and which D’Onofrio performance leaves the deeper scar: Private Pyle or Wilson Fisk? Tell us in the comments and follow FandomWire for more coverage.