Saturday 19 December 2009

The Jacket DVD Report


Print: Good - Sound: Good - Label: Warner Brothers - Year: 2005 - Cover: Good - Format: 2.4:1 - Length: 1h36m/1h33m - Before: No - Again: Maybe - Price: £1 - Rating: 7/10.

In The Jacket, its 1991, Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) is a US soldier serving in the Gulf, but in a firefight is shot in the head and pronounced dead - but Starks returns to life.

A year later, Starks is walking to his family home through the snowy landscape of Vermont and discovers a broken down truck. He helps the women and her daughter by starting it, then flags down a ride into town. But the driver is on the run, and its not long before the car is cornered by police. Starks memory goes blank, when he comes to, Sparks is accused of killing a patrol-man, and ends up in a mental home, where he discovers he can travel into the future and has only 4 days to live!

A totally bizarre scenario, but The Jacket a very good movie, you don't see events coming and is thoroughly enjoyable. Reccomended!

Here is the trailer...

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