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The Jacket
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The Jacket   (Rated: 18+)
    Product Type: DVD
    Review Content Rated: 13+
    Reviewed By: iKïyå§ama-R.I.P Whitney H.
    Review Creation Date: 01-01-09 12:46pm
    Review Last Modified: 01-01-09 12:46pm

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  Summary of this DVD...

Wow...talk about a head-trip of a movie. I'm not sure if this fits into the sci-fi category because it definitely felt that way to me, but I'll try to explain this as best I can.

The movie begins during the Gulf war, 1992, when a U.S soldier by the name of Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) is shot in the head by an Iraqi boy. He's presumed dead, but he somehow manages to survive and is released a year later. He meets up with a mother and daughter at the side of the road, whose car has broken down, and in the process of fixing up the car, he becomes friends with the young girl by the name of Jackie (I sense a pattern here).

After this meeting, Jack is involved in an unfortunate car incident/accident where he is incarcerated for a crime he did not commit. He's taken to a special psychatric facility where a Dr. Becker (Kris Kristoffersen) is placed in his charge. However, Dr. Becker's methods of 'curing' his patients are shady and it involves placing them in a strait jacket and locking them up in a morgue drawer for certain hours at a time.

It is during this 'treatment' that Jack Starks is taken into the future where he gets to meet...Jackie (Keira Knightly) again, who is now a young woman barely scrapping through as a waitress in the year 2007.

Through Jackie, Jack gets to find out the truth about certain things...including his 'second' death.

  This type of DVD is good for...

Lovers of sci-fi, surreal or fantasy storylines, and the romantic.

  I especially liked...

A few scenes were pretty good, especially the group meeting in the hospital where Daniel Craig (yes, 007 himself who is almost unrecognizable at first) 'helps' Jack to get back into the 'morgue' room...you'll have to watch to understand. I also liked the extra features. They get to show you all the deleted scenes and interviews with the actors as well as the director.

  This DVD made me feel...

Confused at first...and then quite emotional at the end. You just wanted a happy ending for poor Jack. *Cry*

  The cast of this DVD...

Adrien Brody, Keira Knightly, Daniel Craig, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brad Renfro

  Further Comments...

This is a film you have to watch at least twice to really understand what it's all about. That there is beauty in life, and of course, life is what you make of it. Carpe Diem!

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