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The Jacket [DVD]
enlarge	Director: John Maybury Actors: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh Studio: Warner Home Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~£18.99~~ Buy Used: £0.04 as of 23/11/2009 13:32 GMT details You Save: £18.95 (100%) New (19) Used (33) Collectible (1) from £0.04 Seller: zoverstocks Rating: 23 reviews Sales Rank: 15220 Format: PAL, Widescreen Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 102 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 7321900336857 ASIN: B0009YVCZO Release Date: September 12, 2005 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review When you put on iThe Jacket/i, 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. iThe Jacket/i aspires to the cleverness of iMemento/i 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. i--Jeff Shannon, Amazomn.com/i

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 23 1 2 3 4 5 Next » Long live the Organization for the Organized! August 6, 2005 Daniel Jolley (Shelby, North Carolina USA) 20 out of 26 found this review helpful Here lately, the best way to find the boldest, darkest, most intellectually challenging films is to follow Jennifer Jason Leigh. Having watched The Machinist and The Jacket back to back, I feel a whole lot better about the future of motion pictures than I used to. There are actually scriptwriters and directors out there that are almost as dark and twisted as I am. Of course, The Jacket is primarily a showpiece for Adrien Brody, who gives a marvelous, haunting performance as Jack Starks, an ill-fated man who comes to know the past through the future - it's rather complicated (but it all makes sense in the end).pStarks' problems begin when a little Iraqi kid plugs him in the head as his unit is trying to control a crowd during a combat mission in the Gulf War. He is left for dead and may in fact have died (but I don't want to get into a tricky metaphysical discussion on this point). Then, it's a year later and we see Jack walk down a wintry road and help a woman and daughter get their car started - a seemingly innocuous event but one of great importance in this story. Then Jack bums a ride with a stranger, the car gets pulled over by a policeman, and the next thing Jack knows, he's on trial for killing a cop. No one believes his story, much of which he doesn't remember anyway, and there's no denying the fact that he suffered a serious head injury in the war, so he ends up being confined in a mental institution for the criminally insane. There are definitely some insane people at the institution - unfortunately, some of them are on the staff.pI'm still trying to figure out who told Kris Kristofferson he could act, but he shows up here as Dr. Mengel- uh, I mean Dr. Becker. His idea of treatment is shooting Jack up with some kind of hallucinatory drug, confining him in a straitjacket (you didn't think the title referred to a Members Only jacket, did you?), and shutting him up in a morgue drawer for hours on end. As a claustrophobic, that gives me all kinds of heebie jeebies, let me tell you. The thing is, though, that Jack starts seeing things while he's stuck in there - fragmented memories come at him a mile a minute, and in time he begins to see the future. He meets up with the little girl (Jackie) he helped earlier in the film (who grew up quite nicely into Keira Knightley) - only it's 2007, which is fifteen years in Jack's future. Actually, you can't really say it's Jack's future because he finds out that he died (or will die) on New Year's Day of 1993. Finding out you're dead is a bit of a shock, of course, so he tries to find out exactly how he died - his only hope to learn the truth is his link to 2007 and Jackie - and he can only see that future world while he is in the jacket and in that dark place. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays a less evil doctor in the institution who comes to share a special bond with Jack (one she is reluctant to accept at first). Hey, it's not easy for a guy in a mental institution to convince one of his doctors that he is seeing the future.pThings get rather complicated, as you might imagine, but the movie handles the time issue wonderfully, and the whole movie really does make perfect sense. Maybe they stretch things a tad at the very end, but it's not a problem. The Jacket isn't for everyone; it's too dark and mysterious to satisfy those looking for pure entertainment. For the serious-minded viewer who loves dark sojourns into the depths of human thought and possibilities, however, The Jacket is a movie you'll be telling all of your like-minded friends about. Strap Yourself In ... January 25, 2006 Green Man Music (United Kingdom) 15 out of 21 found this review helpful "The Jacket" is a film about a man who, after being found in the proximity of the body of a murdered cop and with no memory of what happened, is cleared of the murder on insanity grounds and placed in a sanitarium under a doctor#x27;s cruel and controversial regime. While undergoing a depraved experimental "therapy" by way of a method known as "the Jacket" - essentially involving placement in a morgue cabinet for hours on end - he finds himself able to leap #x27;outside#x27; of his own life and death. Moving between past and future he pieces together clues from both to help him understand what really happened in his past, and what might happen in the future. In this much it follows in a similar vein to films such as "The I Inside" and "Memento". pThere are enjoyable performances from the two leads. Adrien Brody (who must have the largest nose in Hollywood) plays the frustrated and disorientated victim of the medical regime, making us sympathetic to his plight; and Keira Knight, who plays the girl who takes him in, gives a good performance as the sultry daughter of an alchoholic that Brody#x27;s character first meets when she#x27;s a child, prior to him being locked up.pUnfortunately the story confuses itself somewhat towards the end, a common problem with "time paradox" scenarios; if this problem was removed however, you#x27;d end up with a more sombre "Donnie Darko" ending rather than the one we get.pDespite this however I found "The Jacket" a really enjoyable watch, so I#x27;m giving it five stars for enjoyment value. As an aside, there is only one mention of "Gulf War Syndrome" right at the very beginning, and the protagonist#x27;s former occupation as a soldier is really just incidental to what is otherwise a supernatural fantasy; it#x27;s no war movie! A Few Brain Cells will Tell You This Is A FANTASTIC Film July 30, 2005 M. B. Richardson (Stockton - on - Tees, Cleveland United Kingdom) 3 out of 6 found this review helpful I have just watched this movie on DVD - American release version - I was totally blown away by it ! If you loved "Meet Joe Black" but with a few more twists and turns - you will love this one .brThe acting is superb , the storyline is mesmerising , the script is faultless - contrary to what one reviewer said "it has flaws in the story" - non were apparent to me and the people i watched it with !!brIt certainly is'nt a thriller as shown on the DVD box cover - it's an intriguing story of "what if" ! The extra's are a must see as well - hopefully the British version will have the same deleted scenes and alternate endings as does the American DVD .brThis is a film you will want to show your friends and watch again - the haunting melody in the background is also chosen superbly , perhaps to bring a tear to the eye ? Thought provoking June 16, 2007 The Laughing Mole (UK) 1 out of 19 found this review helpful Give this a few minutes to get going and then enjoy a compelling and thought-provoking film with some great filming. Wonderful movie. February 18, 2008 Francisco José Poyato Ariza (Madrid, Spain) 0 out of 6 found this review helpful Wonderful movie, touching, sensitive, well constructed. Do not read what it is about, just see it...and feel it. Open your senses and your mind to it, you will be amazed. Never mind the "critics" who think they are too smart to be moved. Let them watch the "I know what you did last summer" trilogy and sequels instead. 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