The Jacket

Caught this on DVD, was interested after hearing my friend who watched it basically re-counted back the whole plot to me over a dinner..

I gotta say, the cover image for this DVD is kinda disturbing, motion blurred eyes = creepy!

Of course I won't disclose the plot here, it's supposed to be a 'thinking' movie with it's twists and turns, which thanks to my friend, totally ruined the experience for me having told me basically EVERYTHING.

The movie's cinematography is kinda psychotic, you have to watch it to understand what I meant by 'psychotic', or maybe it was just me watching it at 2 am with barely enough sleep the few nights before..

I believe this movie would give a stronger impact to those who didn't know about the story beforehand, because me having known the plot, everything seems so predictable when I watched it and it was less engrossing, but the performance was good enough to warrant my interest.

This movie also reminded me of one other movie which I liked, 'The 12 Monkeys'. I was totally blown away when I watched that movie last time, and I could still remember the song 'What A Wonderful World' being played at the end when the credit rolls. A classic in my book, because it delivers such a strong aftertaste of irony.