10/12: Jacob's Ladder

Yesterday's movie:

10/12: For tonight's film I watched Jacob's Ladder. I hadn't hit any 90s movies yet this year in the binge and I had heard good things about Jacob's Ladder so I gave it a go.

Jacob's Ladder centers around Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins), a Vietnam War vet who begins to see visions of demons and can't tell what's real from what's imagined. There's a lot going on here between Jacob's imagined(?) demons, PTSD/flashbacks to the war, weird eyeless doctors, Jacob's dead son, his crazy annoying girlfriend (like, she's even worse than Bruce Willis' girlfriend in Pulp Fiction), and George Costanza pretending he's a lawyer.

JERRY!

This movie is a great concept that never seems to achieve it's potential; the sum of it's myriad parts aren't enough. It has some freaky, very trippy parts that on their own are good but as a whole the movie kind of meanders. As a bizarre experiment the film works and maybe that's the point, as much of the movie centers around a government conspiracy where soldiers in Vietnam (like Jacob) were experimented on. As a complete film though it's, well, incomplete. This is all more a shame because the twist at the end about Jacob's true fate is revealed is actually pretty damn well done. 

 7/10