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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 9566
Released: June 21, 2005 |
| Our Price: $3.06 |
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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:
The Strait-Jacket 
2009-09-05 - This movie is just waaaaay too far out for my tastes. The acting is good, but the subject matter is depressing and weird. Sorry, too weird for me!
Time After Time After... 
2009-02-21 - THE JACKET is sort of an interesting blend of JACOB'S LADDER, BUTTERFLY EFFECT, and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, w/ just a pinch of THE UGLY and 12 MONKEYS tossed in for seasoning. After being mortally wounded in the gulf war, Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) finds himself in a mental institution at the mercy of Dr. Becker (Kris Kristofferson). Starks has been accused of a murder he didn't commit and found to be insane. Becker uses a banned technique in order to "break" Starks. This method is actually a form of drug-induced torture that somehow allows Jack to travel forward in time. This leads him on a terrible journey of discovery where life, death, and reality are twisted and intersected. Brody is very convincing in his role, as are Keira Knightley (The Hole), Daniel Craig (Invasion), and Jennifer Jason-Liegh (The Hitcher, Single White Female). THE JACKET is a nice little mind-melter...
a hollywood blend... 
2009-02-18 - Perhaps I'm being a little harsh with only 3 stars - but i felt something needed to be said about the many flaws within this movie...
First of all this review isn't going to moan about the supposed ending or pretentiously what 'I' think happens - that is best left for personal opinion - everyone is going to view the film differently.
The main issue i had with the film is that although the idea has potential - I didn't feel that it was reached fully within this film. The theme of time-travel is one that countless films have attempted, and so the very 'safe' approach that 'the jacket' takes, gives you somewhat dejavu. The film is a blend of unoriginal ideas taken from classics such as 'one flew over the cuckoos nest', 'jacob's ladder' and 'twelve monkeys', but alas lacks in the depth that these great movies had.
Definately worth watching, but don't expect anything special...but look out for Daniel Craig's role - that is definately worth watching for!!
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
