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Summary: THIS [BAD]!!!
Review: This movie isn't scary at all, it's a very simple and easy plot to understand, and I predicted the ending 45 minutes before the film ended! This movie [ is terrible], and is criminally OVERATED!!!!! Don't see this, it's a waste of time and energy, and it's plain boring. Even The Fast and the Furious had a more compeling plot than this. Yeah, this movie is that BAD!!!!THIS [BAD] THIS [BAD] THIS [BAD]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Not as crazy as real world , the one...we want to forget...
Review: Alan Parker , Luis Bunuel , Andrey Tarkovskiy , Alexandr Sakurov , Wachowski brothers , J.P.Jeunet , Roman Planski ... all the best and most twisted ? directors . The best ones .
The reality of craziness of the world , which should be real ... The surrealism of grayness of everyday nothingness...The twisted odiotism of people in charge of the people , who surrundered... The nothingness of emptyness in human givingupness ...
Some of us go on top of it , joint the ride of fake happyness untill diving in endless world...of fake reality ...
This kind of films was born on a realism of unfearness of a world we live in , on the great soil of surrealism of fake believes ...
In reality of everyday life - leave us alone , men ! We do not want to know , how missarable we are ! We are happy ! If we are not ?! Someone WILL make us happy ... so we can die broke and lonly ...
But someone keap fighting for our world of fake happiness ... Or they fighting for our chance to fight ? For our chance of realising unrealisible ... They just give us a light ... what we are going to do with it ? ... It is up to us ... I hope so ?!?
If you have no idea , what I am talking about - DO NOT WATCH THIS FILM...You are going to fell asleep in ampty happiness of nothing ...
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Summary: 2 stars for horror, but 5 for great drama.
Review: This is by no means a scary movie, as some viewers would have you believe. I did everything your suppose to do in a psycological horror film, but it just didn't scare me. It had 2 jump out at you parts that made me jump, but that is it. It had great acting, great story, and a confusing plot, but it is definately not for the general public, because you'll find it boring in many places. Once the general public catches this flick, and once real horror buffs see this film, expect the average rating to go down to 2 1/2 stars.
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Summary: A Tribute to the Complexity of the Human Mind
Review: This movie is done a grave disservice being lableled as "horror." On the contrary, Adrian Lyne's thought-provoking and disturbing film would best be categorized as "cerebral."The illusion of reality is magnificently manifested throughout this movie, as the character of Jacob is systematically caught in a metaphysical vortex that transcends his perception of a post-Vietnam existence. Tim Robbins does an outstanding job playing Jacob, an unimposing man who is simultaneosly confused, overwhelmed, and frightened by the sudden appearance of "demons" in his life. Robbins is surrounded by a stellar supporting cast. The haunting imagery of JACOB'S LADDER stimulates the mind and entices one to see this film, over and over again. It is a profound existential treat.
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Summary: Disturbing symbolism
Review: This movie is not for the faint of heart and it takes at least 3 times of watching this movie to understand the great symbolism hidden behind the story. From one man's descent almost into hell to his resurrection, the story will go through the life of a man who may seem disturbed, but is only living through a Purgatory. Definitely recommend this movie if you are up to watching it on numerous occasions to understand the meaning behind this movie.
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Summary: a bit extreme
Review: very good actors and director; the idea of the script is
good but it requires a leap of faith from the part of the v
iewer; not very plausible.
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Summary: Unforgettable
Review: That Bruce Joel Rubin's amazing screenplay was kicked around Hollywood for ten years trying to find a producer, and then tanked at the box-office when it finally hit the screen, shouldn't surprise you in the least. "Jacob's Ladder" is far too challenging for the mall crowd. Unlike most Hollywood movies, it actually requires you to pay attention and to give up the comfortable expectation that everything in a film will immediately make sense. If you can't manage that, look elsewhere. But for those who appreciate subtlety and are willing to stick it out, this will be one of the darkest, yet most interesting, rewarding and endlessly watchable films you'll ever see.
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Summary: Between heaven and hell
Review: I first watched this film alone in a movie theatre upon it's release in 1991. I walked into a completely empty auditorium, sat down, watched the trailers, the movie, the credits and walked out without seeing one single human being in there! As you can imagine, that made the experience of the film the most psycholigically disturbing and thought provoking of my life. I was still churning the whole thing around in my mind 2 weeks later. Did it all really happen? ...or did I imagine it? A true masterpiece of the film-makers art, Jacob's ladder will utterly fixate you from beginning to end with masterful cinematography, perfect casting and a gloomy world of uncertainty that twists and turns though the corridors of the human mind. This is a film that each person will interpret differently depending on your psyche. It will make you question the workings of your own mind in a way no film has done so before. Several people have given me their interpretation after seeing the film - and who's to say which one is accurate? Is it perhaps, that in the twilight world of Jacob's drug-induced mind, his life ebbing away in that feild hospital in Vietnam, he stood on he ladder looking both up and down to see glimpses of heaven and hell? His final destination is something of a surprise and provides a fitting end to this incredible film. Be warned you won't know where this film will take your mind. That is I think the true triumph of this work.
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Summary: A Gothic masterpiece
Review: Bob Dylan once said, "Don't criticize what you can't understand", yet a number of people who are clearly clueless about Jacob's Ladder have done just that. Jacob Singer's Book of the Dead journey of the soul is the thread that holds this dark, surrealistic quagmire together. I believe the biblical Jacob's Ladder was a ladder connecting Earth and Heaven, like the Earth-Sky conduits evident in so many Emily Carr paintings, hence the title choice by Bruce Joel Rubin. The more Jacob rages to hold onto life and to make sense of the kaleidoscope of horror that keeps exploding upon his consciousness, the harder his personal demons bite back. Only at the moment of final surrender can he see that the Enemy is himself, and he is able to release his previously earthbound soul from its prison of fear. As one astute reviewer put it, the ending is the point of the film.
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Summary: Delightfully disturbing
Review: Jacob's Ladder is a shocking piece of work, a psychological thriller that smears the lines of reality. It is the story of a Vietnam veteran named Jacob Singer who is desperate to find the cause of his sudden affliction: he is plagued by visions and hallucinations of "demons" and alternate realities within his life. This film has incredible atmosphere and quite an effect on the viewer's psyche. The cinematography is excellent, making use of unconventional camera angles and some spooky effects. I found myself biting my nails and wondering with a feeling of dread what would happen next. The movie has a very small share of "jump-out-of-your-seat" scares, but asides from those few moments, this is not your average horror movie. The most frightening thing about this movie is the way it slowly creeps into your mind and finds a place there, taunting you with the sinister visions it projects. The horror in this movie is psychological, both for Jacob Singer and also for the viewer. It gives the feeling that there is no place to hide--because the true demon in this film is merely the mind, and nothing more. The ending of the movie is in itself quite a shock, leaving the viewer startled and possibly disturbed at the resolution. The deleted scenes included on the DVD add some more twists to the story, and are a definite must to watch. This film is thought-provoking and very well done, and I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone in search of a "deeper" horror film, and anyone looking to descend into the darker corners of the human psyche.
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