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 his dog tags. Jack then carries on and gets picked up by a 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 where he is then out in to a morgue drawer. Whilst in the morgue drawer he experiences vivid flash backs which he has no choice but to lie in the drawer and re-live his worst nightmares.
Through these vivid flashbacks, the story happens and Jack sees the future and prevents the bad things that would have taken place if he had not been put in the morgue drawer.
Although the film is a mixture of emotions, the story ends on an unexpected and happy ending.
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hello, i read your review on this nd i wanted to see it so much that i actually went out to the local blockbusters with my gorgoeus boyfriend and reccomended it to him, later that nyt we were sat on the sofa with a bag of haribo watching this movie. you are right, it is a thinking movie but was very good! thank you very much! a very good first review!
KELLYLOUJ 14.11.2005 20:01
Hi a bit more detail would be good on this review and help you to get ahigher rating, good start tho and welcome to ciao
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Advantages: Thought provoking, great one liners, great acting, good story Disadvantages: Too short for both parts. Maybe there should have been 2 separate films?
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