The Jacket
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Movie Reviews of The Jacket
Movie Review: So much talent, wasted
Summary: 2 Stars
For a while you think you understand, but ultimately it cannot be understood. More's the pity.Movie Review: A Masterful Mix of Horror and Romance
Summary: 5 Stars
It's obvious why George Clooney (Warner Independent) wanted to produce this movie. It has time travel, "man's inhumanity to man", a love story, and a thriller plot that keeps you beguiled until the very end. Adrian Brody is spectacular as the nice guy that has his kindness returned with brutality, but he maintains his altruism to the end. The love story is wonderful on so many levels, it breaks your heart, and Keira Knightley is gorgeous and engaging. You'll see some other familiar faces, too. I've shown this film to as many of my friends and relatives as I can get to sit down and watch it, and they all were as touched by it as I was. It won't be on any Academy Award lists (too bad, too), but it's a great movie just the same. Movie Review: Nice Surprise
Summary: 4 Stars
I guess I was mistaken when I read the cover and thought it was a copy of Jacob's Ladder, which I loved but didn't feel like seeing again. So I didn't buy it. Well it was on HBO so I thought I'd go ahead and try it. It had similarities to Jacob's Ladder but was it's own movie. A very good one at that.
Adrien Brody is a really wonderful actor and did a great job in this movie. All the acting was good. The movie is about a man who is killed during the war, or was he? Well I won't tell you. The movie takes some interesting twists and turns. The flashing scenes especially in the beginning can be a bit annoying. My advice, don't worry if you see everything or not. Relax, it will all come together later. Do pay attention to names and faces as the movie does jump back and forth through time.
If you like a good thriller, check this one out.
Movie Review: Full Mental Jacket
Summary: 3 Stars
WARNING: possible spoilers ahead...
I can sum up this movie for you in one sentence: 12 Butterfly Monkeys Flew Over Donnie Darko's Ladder.
The Jacket is really a stew made from pieces of Donnie Darko, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the Butterfly Effect, 12 Monkeys and Jacob's Ladder. The thing about this stew is that the flavors all mesh nicely, and don't compete too much. It's a little bland, and probably doesn't deserve a full-on BAM! but it's better than canned soup.
This movie is a weird kind of psychedelic time travel paranoid thriller. Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) is a soldier in Desert Storm, and he gets shot in the head. Flash forward to years later, he's wandering down a lonely stretch of road and he runs into a little girl and her mother who are broken down by the side of the road. He fixes their car and continues on his way, until he's picked up by some guy who goes on to shoot a highway patrolman and frame Jack for the murder. Jack is found guilty by reason of insanity and sentenced to treatment at a mental facility. The head doctor (Kris Kristofferson) utilizes some strange methods in his attempted treatment of his patients. The orderlies strap Jack into a straightjacket, fill him full of drugs, and stick him in a morgue drawer for 8 hours.
While Jack is in the drawer, he somersaults through time to find the little girl that he helped by the side of the road all grown up now. They fall in love, and she tells Jack that he died inside the mental institution. Now Jack has to figure out how he died and who killed him before time catches up with him. Basically, every time they take Jack out of the drawer, he knows a lot of stuff about the future that he shouldn't know.
It's a fairly interesting little concept, and it would probably be a lot more entertaining if it didn't feel so familiar. It's well-acted and directed with style. I can't find any flaws with the execution of the movie, and the production is slick and glossy. The main problem with the movie, and the reason I'm not giving it a higher grade, is that it's too familiar. That familiarity comes from having seen elements of the Jacket in all the movies I mentioned above. If the Jacket had been made before Donnie Darko or 12 Monkeys, it might have felt vanguard and unique, but as it is, this just winds up being a little bland for my taste.
Movie Review: A fragmented psychological thriller
Summary: 3 Stars
Adrien Brody is the kind of actor that can pull off something like "The Jacket", a film way out of the mainstream that is more cerebral than emotional, more visual than literal, more reliant on its script that the beauty of its stars, and more difficult to follow than any other Brody film I've seen.
Brody plays a Gulf War veteran going through a sequence of psychiatric rehabilitation where he enters a couple new worlds -- one in the past and one in the future. He used these visits to put together his own life story and that of the person that eventually becomes his significant other.
After about an hour I figured out the ending, although I did not imagine the precise event our star would go through to get there. But this predictability was quite obvious and was played out at the end of the film with a bit of a twist.
Brody is one of the most compelling film presences in today's cinema and he uses his ability and charisma to maintain interest in this movie, which can be hard to follow and episodic. He looks even thinner here than he did in his role as "The PIanist", where he lost 30 pounds to play the role. He has virtually no meat on him, a stark contrast to his romantic bad boy role in "Love The Hard Way".
So rent, buy or borrow this to see one of the world's great actors in his newest role. This movie is far from maintstream Hollywood so beware viewers that like nice little movie packages. It has a nice ending, if that matters to you.