The Jacket Movie Review 2005

A gulf vet (Brody) is falsely convicted of murder. Having no memory of the crime, he's sentenced to a mental institution instead of prison. The chief psychiatrist's therapy consists of drugs, a straitjacket, and sensory deprivation in a morgue drawer. Vet's reaction to this is, of course, to time-travel, allowing him to confront the ghosts of his present in the future and effect changes for the general good of all. Interesting premise, but handled with a lead foot and little originality. Think "Jacob's Ladder" meets "Twelve Monkeys" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Fairly entertaining with good performances by solid cast.

Distribution

Warner Home Video, Inc., 5775 Linder Canyon Rd., Westlake Village, CA 91362, URL: http://whv.warnerbros.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on DVD
Running time 102 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Psycho-Thriller, Persian Gulf War, Amnesia, Veterans, The Wrong Man, Homicide, Mental Hospitals, I'm Not Dead, Yet!, Time Travel, Sanity Check

Screenplay

Massy Tadjedin

Cast

Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch, Brad Renfro, Daniel Craig, MacKenzie Phillips

Cinematography

Peter Deming

Director

John Maybury

Music

Brian Eno

Other

Colin Nicolson, Andy Richards, Emma E. Hickox, Doug Hall, Alan Macdonald

Producer

Peter Guber, George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh, Peter E. Strauss, Ori Marmur, Ben Cosgrove, Jennifer Fox, Todd Wagner, Warner Independent Pictures, Mandalay Pictures, Warner Independent Pictures