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Jacob's Ladder 1990
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Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) thinks he is going insane. Or worse. When his nightmares begin spilling into his waking hours, Jacob believes he is experiencing the aftereffects of a powerful drug tested on him during Vietnam. Or perhaps his posttraumatic stress disorder is worse than most. Whatever is happening to him, it is not good. Director Adrian Lyne sparks our interest and maintains high production values, but this confusing film chokes on its "surprise" ending. It owes much to Ambrose Bierce's haunting and more straightforward story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek." Written by Bruce Joel Rubin, who also explored the "other...
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| Jacob's Ladder Movie Review by BillyBob (5/27/2010) |
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JACOB'S LADDER is a somewhat confusing, but, all the same, intriguing supernatural Thriller that utilizes the possibility of "soldiers-as-unknowing-guinea-pigs" as a premise for its story.
Vietnam vet, Jacob Singer, suddenly finds himself haunted and traumatized by hallucinations which can't be easily distinguished from...
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| Jacob's Ladder Movie Review by Derringer (12/30/2008) |
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Unlike WW2, where American enthusiasm to smash and obliterate the enemy (Nazi) was, understandably, at an all-time high - The Vietnam War produced quite a different attitude toward combat fighting from US Soldiers. The Vietnam War was the war of resentment.
Between 1964-1973 more than 55,000 American Soldiers needlessly...
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| Jacob's Ladder Movie Review by Xavier (1/24/2008) |
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Just before Tim Robbins got all persecuted in Shawshank he was getting very much harassed in Jacob's Ladder. This is an excellent piece of thriller crossed with horror, it is painful, claustrophobic and disorientating. It is also one of those flicks that can be easily ruined if you have not seen it. There are several other...
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