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The Jacket

Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Brad Renfro

A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

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  • Redlats
    April 10, 2009
    Redlats
    I like movies with convoluted plots - as long as I can figure them out. This one fits the bill. While being treated for mental illness in 1992, Jack (Adrein Brody) is transported into 2007. In his trips back and forth between the two eras, Jack has to resolve various issues.
  • garyX
    January 28, 2009
    garyX
    An Iraq war veteran sent home with serious head trauma is convicted of a murder he does not remember committing. While enduring an experimental "treatment" at the hands of a sadistic doctor, he suddenly finds himself somewhere and somewhen else. This off beat sci-fi fantasy has a...( read more) lot of elements of familiar wish-fulfillment and time travel stories. His romance with emotional burn out Keira Knightley reminded me a little of Eternal Sunshine, the meddling with time aspect is very like The Butterfly Effect and the whole time travel/mental hospital scenario is very Twelve Monkeys. The thing that makes this film is the combination of great performances and the way that although it feels a little generic, it continually hops between those genres without feeling disjointed which keeps the story intriguing right til the end. Adrien Brody is excellent as the long suffering patient, as is an almost unrecognizable Daniel Craig as his Cuckoo's Nest style confidante. There are some nice visual flourishes and the direction is nice and tight, the film far from outstaying its welcome. I quite enjoyed the darker aspect of The Butterfly Effect, and this film does something similar with a far more inventive and mature approach. I liked it a lot.
  • mrpopcorn
    January 7, 2009
    mrpopcorn
    "Terror has a new name."

    A troubled war veteran tries to unlock his memories of a terrible crime in this stylish thriller, the first American project for British filmmaker John Maybury. In 1991, Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) was an American soldier serving in the Persian Gul...( read more)f when he was shot in the head; pronounced dead by a field surgeon, Starks somehow returned to life, though with no small number of psychological problems to show for his troubles. A year later, Starks is walking through the snowy Vermont wilderness when he discovers a woman whose truck has broken down, Jean (Kelly Lynch). Starks tries to help Jean and her young daughter, and later flags down a car for a ride into town; however, the car is being driven by a criminal on the run from the police (Brad Renfro), and not long after the car is cornered by police, Starks' memory goes blank. When he comes to, Jack is accused of killing a patrolman in the violent standoff that followed, and is told the woman, her daughter, and the criminal existed only in his imagination. Declared insane in his murder trial, Starks is sentenced to a mental institution run by Dr. Becker (Kris Kristofferson), who seems to believe that the more brutal the treatment, the better. As Starks suffers frequent beatings and long spells in a frozen locker, his mind drifts from his harrowing past into the future, where he visits with Jackie (Keira Knightley), who once was the young girl Starks tried to help.

    Review
    Had to see the film twice. The concept of time travel to a point that you realise your own real time is tragically short in 4 days and in that short spasm of time to 'reset' the lives of other unfortunates begs the question as what we would do with that certain knowledge. The film was provocative and intermingled with sharing life with another - once when Jackie was a child who had the sensitivity to keep the dog tags and to the young one he fell in love with in a future that was to be as short as his present existence in the asylum for a crime he did not commit. Shame they didn't identify the real perpetrator but that may have distanced us from the real theme! Keira was superb, Adrien was great as the haunted and Daniel Craig refreshingly brilliant!
  • RCCLBC
    September 29, 2008
    RCCLBC
    A really cool concept, nicely executed...but not as "tight" as it could have been.

    An amazing cast (some in minor rules) and a mostly well written script.

    I feel that it would have been even more powerful minus the final 3 minute "tie it all up in a bow" (felt like an after...( read more) thought) ending.
  • mistershinobi
    August 30, 2008
    mistershinobi
    Brody's performance is simply amazing. The way he devours the role and carries the movie over his shoulders from start to finish is simply breath-taking. He gives some outstanding acting lessons as he usually does, from "Oxygen" to "The Village" and of course "The Pianist" he is ...( read more)absolutely one of the best actors around.

    As for the movie... well, it was a little bit full of itself. It was haunting and brilliantly shot but the plot holes and illogic screenplay killed the game for me. Knightley and Kristofferson give great performances but it feels like many things are missing. One of Brody's best performances but you can only get so far with a marvelous leading man.
  • whetdu
    October 26, 2009
    whetdu
    unexpected pllot twist, but still weird in the end left with questions. Besides Daniel Craigs' bangin' American accent, the movie wAs just ok...
  • animefreakbloodgoth
    October 25, 2009
    animefreakbloodgoth
    it was pretty awesome movie ...
    I really like it ...
  • jeff954y
    October 17, 2009
    jeff954y
    Would be good just for Keira Knightley, but the story is very good, a movie I saw two or three times.
  • melly2294
    October 2, 2009
    melly2294
    Rather strange movie, but interesting in conception. Chemistry between characters is believably, and many elements of the story are interesting.
  • ElCochran90
    September 17, 2009
    ElCochran90
    Cool and creepy concept. Not bad.

    58/100
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