The Jacket
| release date | March 4 2005 |
| studio | Warner Independent |
| director | John Maybury |
| writer | Marc Rocco, Massy Tadjedin |
| starring | Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch, Brad Renfro, Mackenzie Phillips |
| rating | R |
| site | thejacketmovie.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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I really really like this movie. Most people havent seen it and i would recommend it. Plus even with his big nose Adrien Brody is cute. lol
This was a very interesting movie but I felt like the ending was too neat and everything worked out too well. Sounds strange but that’s how it felt to me. Not bad though.
This could have been a lot better but I found it to drag on and be very boring.
good movie with a brilliant plot
It didn’t really seem like a thriller to me, it was more of a Scifi-Time Traveling flick. It was very good and well done and had a brilliant plot.
Not even five minutes into this movie and their is a gorgously gorey headshot. Im talking brain and blood spillage. A soldier gets shot by a small child now thats how you start a bloody movie. With a man surviving a bullet to the freaken skull and living to talk about it after a long rehabilitation. Just another Gulf W…ar sucsess story. Adrien Brody plays the man and he gets locked inside a mental hospital for chriminals. Becouse he is a man who does not know who he is or what he has done. Appearently they could not find him guilty if he does not know what he did. Instead of prison he is in a psyche ward on heavy medication and used as a test subject.
It is weird watching a movie with Keira Knightly where she is not talking with her brithish accent. Instead she is speaking in a North American accent or trying to. She plays a woman whos life is touched by Adrien Brody’s character at several differnt times in her life she gets older while he stays at the same age. Becouse he might be some form of guardian angel who is traveling through time to save the lives of the people around him. This is verry awekward materia that might be open to interpretation. A head injury victum beats the odds and survive a gunshot to the skull posibly twice. Probably has perminent brain damage, swelling and other nerilogical damage. He is constantly getting pumped full of questionable drugs and medications. Not to mention the fights he gets into with the hospital staff and security aides.
If that wasnt bad enough he gets tied down to a gourney and straight jacket everynight. Then the gourney gets shoved into a freezer in a mourge or mourge like room. He is put into the drawer. Where he either drifts into fantacy or travels through time or has psycic visions. How scary would it be in the mourge locker. He isnt put in their for a few minutes at a time no. He is put in their for three of four hours at a time. It must be freezing in their. Being unable to move or see. Imagine the sence of panic you would feel knowing that you are in a place peoples bodies go after their die to keep them from deterierating. I think it is quite possible for him to drift off into fantacy or see the future. Maybe he is using a different part of his brain that most people dont know how to channel. Is this a butterfly effect movie.
A question I ask myself is even if he never commited any crimes as a civilian particularly the crime that he is charged with. A murder that he did not commit but he was framed for. He was a soldier at war. Meaning he probably killed a number of people fighting for his country. So when people kill in war or patriotic combat is it as bad as killing someone in day to day life. Does that make this movie a redemption story.
Perhaps Adrien Brody’s character is dead and is sent back to the land of the living to do good deeds so he can leave pergatory and get into heaven. What I love about this movie is that it is so open to interpration. A headshot victum with amnesia gets locked in a nut house. Gets locked in a freezer used to keep corpses fresh and travels through time. Where he befreinds people and tries to solve their problems.
How interesting is it to see Chris Kirstopherson play a psycological doctor at a mental institution. Casting is everything and how interesting is it to see a western folk rock icon play a shrink. A shrink who is using the mentaly unstable fellons at his hospital as test subjects to questionable treatments or experiments. I think his character has completely lost his way and does not know what is ethical anymore.
What genre does this film fall under is it a thriller, is it a drama, is it science fiction. Why is it that all of the good movies cant be put into one catagory and this one is no exception. It just has such a earie quality to it and to think everything that happens in this movie happens in December during the holiday season. The idea that a movie this dark happens during the Holidays puts this movie over the top for me.
Absolutely love this film.
good little film with a great cast.
love it.
Great Cast, Great plot, Great Movie!
This was a fairly great movie, with a cool plot and good actors. The storyline confused me a bit, but I actually liked the fact that for once I couldn’t tell which direction the movie was going. Those types of films are few and far between, which made this movie all the better. Overall, a pretty decent flick, will definitely have to watch this again.
Score: 8/10
better than I thought it would be. A surprising little jem. Adrien Brody hits the nail on the head again. It’s got a good plot and decent twist. I like.