The Jacket (DVD)

Jack Starks is shot in the head during the Gulf War, where he is serving in the military. Escaping death, he is discharged under medical reasons suffering bouts of amnesia. Hitchhiking through Vermont he comes across a broken down truck. The mother is wasted and throwing up all over the roadside while her young daughter stands there helplessly waiting for someone to come along. Jack fixes the car and gives his dog tags to the enchanting little girl, ...
...they are pulled over by the police, who is unfortunately shot by said driver and due to Jack's bouts of amnesia he is set up as the shooter. His trial concludes he is not guilty by reasons of insanity and he is sent to Alpen Pines institution for the criminally insane. Dr Thomas Becker is assigned to look after him and unbeknownst to some of the other staff there he is conducting relentless, sadistic experiments on the patients. They are taken to ...

wendybull 25.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Jacket (DVD)

The Jacket staring Keira Knightley playing Jackie and Adrian Broody playing Jack Starcks, provides a thrilling film with an exciting and mind boggoling story-line. Jack returns from the Gulf War 12 months later having been shot in the head with a gun by an Iraqi orphan, he experinences 2 life changing events; first he meets the young Jackie and her mother on the side of a road as their truck has broken down. Jack fixes the truck and gives Jackie ...
...stranger, they get stopped by the police and the stranger shoots the policeman and then puts the blame on Jack. Jack then goes to trial although we do not see this and instead of being put in prison for the policeman's murder, the court decides that Jack should be put in to a mental hospital where he can undergo tests. Whilst in the comfort of his bed, late at night he is taken away and tranquilised and put in a straight jacket and taken to the basement ...

jayel88 14.11.2005 · Read full review
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