Jacket

Year: 2005

Grade: C+

Country: USA

Director: Maybury

Review

keira knightley’s accent felt forced. it reminded me of a cross between the butterfly effect and jacob’s ladder, in more ways than just the plot. at different times while i was watching the picture i felt that it had the potential to be as good as jacob’s ladder or as bad as the butterfly effect. in the end, it is somewhere in between. i think that overall adrian brody’s performance, and the idea of changing a person’s life in a moment, sold me on the picture – but just barely. stylistically the film was mostly successful. quick edits and low light painted a decent picture of the isolation brody experienced while in the jacket.

Watched in theater