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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 13998
Released: June 21, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody stars as a Gulf War veteran wrongly accused of murder, and subsequently committed to a mental institution. A controversial treatment regimen sends him on a mind-bending journey into the future, where he can foresee his death - and must try to stop it. Also stars Keira Knightley ("Pirates of the Caribbean 1 & 2," "Bend it Like Beckham"), Daniel Craig ("Road to Perdition"), Golden Globe-nominated Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch ("Charlie's Angels") and Kris Kristofferson.
DVD Features:
Additional Scenes
Alternate endings:The Jacket: Project History and Deleted Scenes
Featurette:The Look of The Jacket: A Featurette on Special Effects
Description of The Jacket:
When you put on The Jacket, prepare for a head-trip into fragmented reality. Coproducer Steven Soderbergh might have fared better with this mind-bender than British director John Maybury (who indulges an excess of heavy-handed "style"), but it's intriguing enough to hold your attention as Gulf War veteran Jack Starks (Adrian Brody) sustains a head-wound that results in amnesia and fragmented timelines. One involves Jack's apparent killing of a policeman, after which he's institutionalized and subjected to straight-jacketed experiments in sensory isolation (with Kris Kristofferson as the doctor in charge); the other is a possible future involving a nihilistic waitress (Keira Knightley) with connections to his past, and the discovery that Jack will die in four days if he can't solve the brain-teasing puzzle he's fallen into. The Jacket aspires to the cleverness of Memento and falls short of that target, but Brody gives this exercise in desperate disorientation a certain gravitas that keeps you watching as his tormenting visions begin to unravel. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brad Renfro and Kelly Lynch make the most of their small supporting roles. --Jeff Shannon
The Jacket Reviews:
Worth Watching 
2009-01-06 - I liked that this was a dark "thinker" type movie. I watched this movies with no expectations, because I've never heard of it before I saw it on TV.
I like this style of movie. The script wasn't the greatest but the acting was still ok.
Very good....smart movie....a Keeper
2008-08-18 - Once in a while a great movie will come and go...and if you are lucky
you might have a change to find it and see it years after....
The jacket is one of those movies....read the reviews and if you like
what you read, you should find a way to see this movie....It will keep
your attention with a great script and great actors/actresses//
I was very sastisfied.
A Keeper
Intelligent Science Fiction! 
2008-08-05 - This movie is OUTSTANDING! The advertisements for it were all wrong. For some reason they touted it as a horror flick, but no! This is Time Traveling Science Fiction Adventure all the way! I loved it! I'm a writer of short Sci-Fi myself and the premise of this movie is not unlike some I have explored with my own stories. I really like how this was done. Craig was excellent! Knightley superb! Adrien Brody fantastic! I can watch this one again and again. As I stated, this is intelligent Science Fiction, not for those who lack imagination or intelligence. And I thank God for that! (Spoken while pointing both index fingers toward the Heavens!)
Worth more than 5 Stars
2008-03-16 - If you are anyone capable of digging deep into emotion at all, having the intelligence to embrace the sorrow of loss, yet understand the beauty of gaining things beyond the wildest of imaginations? You'll love this movie. This movie tells the story of a soldier returned home, and through the most creative and interesting of experiences meets the love of his life... the irony of the bliss that ensues is extremely well portrayed by Adrian and Keira... amazing!
A second chance to do the right thing
2008-01-30 - For me a good science fiction film deals more with human nature than it does with cool gadgetry and special effects. Take for instance 2001, Solaris (the original), La Jetee or 12 Monkeys, Gattaca, Children of Men and Blade Runner (yes, I know it has flying cars but that's besides the point), all these films were concerned with human nature either subjectively or objectively. Such is the case with The Jacket. Jack Starks, our protagonist, isn't concerned with the actual mechanics of how he was able to travel to the future, nor is he fascinated with the travel itself, instead he's concerned about the people who exist in that future.
In the hospital, where jack is imprisoned, we witness the horrible mistreatment he undergoes. He is constantly drugged up and contained within a drawer (the kind you see in the morgue) while strapped tightly in a straight jacket. The doctors have control of his physical self but it is Jack's will power, his being that they can't imprison. Physically he's trapped and abused but his true nature, his selflessness has found freedom through the time travel (a side effect of his experimental treatment).
In this sense the film becomes very clear to the viewer that it's introspective in nature and therefore less concerned in gimmicks (special effects, action scenes).
I very much enjoyed this film and I don't want to go into further details and I don't think it's possible to. That's what makes this such a great film is that its theme allows for multiple interpretations which will result in multiple viewings. If you are into the films that I mentioned earlier than give this one a shot and if you are not into those films or have not seen them then start with this one and go from there.
