The Jacket (2005)
March 24th 2008 12:18
My husband and I watched this after I searched for films where the late Brad Renfro (God Bless his soul) starred. The last movie I saw of him was Sleepers where he played the younger version of the character Brad Pitt plays. I saw this movie in the list (care of IMDB) and checked it out. I was intrigued and looked for the movie.
Husband and I originally wanted to watch a light movie that afternoon, we didn't know what The Jacket was all about but decided to watch it anyway. During the first few scenes of the movie where Jack Starcks was placed inside the body drawers and having weird visions/dreams we thought this will be a very heavy movie.
As the movie went on, we actually started liking it. It's a classic journey from present to future but the premise of this one was more intriguing. Sure it still involved a love story ultimately, but it didn't focus on that. Having that said, it didn't feel too sappy and cheezy. It felt like I was going through Starck's journey as well. I wanted to help him get out of the mental institution and find out what's in store for him.
It's definitely not a "light" movie as we originally wanted it to be, but it also wasn't a dark/heavy movie either. It's a good kind of Mystery film. Makes you think, but not too much your brain hurts.
All in all I'd give this movie 4 dimes out of 5. It has enough of the elements that will make you want to finish watching it, at the same time won't give you weird dreams from it's mystery/sci-fi element.
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decided to start giving ratings on each movie I review... I'll be using dimes in place of "stars."
The film centers on a wounded Gulf war veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. He is hitching and gets picked up by a stranger, things go pear shaped when a cop pulls them over and is murdered by the stranger. The vet. is wrongly accused of killing the cop and lands up in an asylum. A quack doctor prescribes a course of experimental therapy, restraining him in a heavy duty straight jacket-like device, and locks him away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. During course of his treatment he gets flashbacks and visions of his future , where he can foresee he is to die in four days time. The catch is he doesn't know how. Thus commences the classic race against time. Written by Austin4577@aol.com
In 1991, in Iraq, the military Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) is shot in the head and presumed dead. When he blinks his eyes in the morgue, the doctor is called. One year later, after being discharged from the army, while hitchhiking in a road in Vermont having amnesia problem, he helps a drunken woman, Jean Price (Kelly Lynch), and her daughter, Jackie Price, fixing their car. Later, he gets a lift, but the driver is stopped by the police and kills the policeman with three shots. Jack is also shot in the head and incriminated by the real killer, who leaves his gun close to the fainted Jack. He goes to court and is sentenced to the mental institution Alpine Grove for insane criminals. Jack becomes the experiment of Dr. Thomas Becker (Kris Kristofferson), who drugs and dresses him with a jacket and lock him in a drawer for corpses in the morgue. While locked, Jack travels to 2007, where he meets a grown-up Jackie Price (Keira Knightley) and they fall in love for each other. Jack envisions that the only exit from the institution is though the jacket. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In 1991, in Iraq, the military Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) is shot in the head and presumed dead. When he blinks his eyes in the morgue, the doctor is called. One year later, after being discharged from the army, while hitchhiking in a road in Vermont having amnesia problem, he helps a drunken woman, Jean Price (Kelly Lynch), and her daughter, Jackie Price, fixing their car. Later, he gets a lift, but the driver is stopped by the police and kills the policeman with three shots. Jack is also shot in the head and incriminated by the real killer, who leaves his gun close to the fainted Jack. He goes to court and is sentenced to the mental institution Alpine Grove for insane criminals. Jack becomes the experiment of Dr. Thomas Becker (Kris Kristofferson), who drugs and dresses him with a jacket and lock him in a drawer for corpses in the morgue. While locked, Jack travels to 2007, where he meets a grown-up Jackie Price (Keira Knightley) and they fall in love for each other. Jack envisions that the only exit from the institution is though the jacket. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Husband and I originally wanted to watch a light movie that afternoon, we didn't know what The Jacket was all about but decided to watch it anyway. During the first few scenes of the movie where Jack Starcks was placed inside the body drawers and having weird visions/dreams we thought this will be a very heavy movie.
As the movie went on, we actually started liking it. It's a classic journey from present to future but the premise of this one was more intriguing. Sure it still involved a love story ultimately, but it didn't focus on that. Having that said, it didn't feel too sappy and cheezy. It felt like I was going through Starck's journey as well. I wanted to help him get out of the mental institution and find out what's in store for him.
It's definitely not a "light" movie as we originally wanted it to be, but it also wasn't a dark/heavy movie either. It's a good kind of Mystery film. Makes you think, but not too much your brain hurts.
All in all I'd give this movie 4 dimes out of 5. It has enough of the elements that will make you want to finish watching it, at the same time won't give you weird dreams from it's mystery/sci-fi element.
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decided to start giving ratings on each movie I review... I'll be using dimes in place of "stars."
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