Mendes defends similarities in Jarhead

Director Sam Mendes has defended his latest movie Jarhead against accusations that it copies other war films such as Full Metal Jacket, insisting the resemblance can't be helped.

Mendes, whose new film is based on the novel Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle Of The Gulf War And Other Battles by Anthony Swofford, says similarities between his and other war films are inevitable because they are about the same thing.