A confusing movie over all that desperately lacked an ending, and which found me leaving the cinema with only one word in my head to describe the experience: Weird!
"Jacob's Ladder" seems to be about hallucinations, or was it dealing with the fear of death, or was it the effects of drugs used on soldiers in the Vietnam War, or was it about.....? I don't really know. Did Adrian Lyne? Though Tim Robbins performance is quite admirable, and the film achieves scenes and moments of frightening inspiration, it is never consistent and never manages to settle on a theme. A sad waste of potential.
Sunday, July 7, 1991 - Greater Union Melbourne
"Jacob's Ladder" seems to be about hallucinations, or was it dealing with the fear of death, or was it the effects of drugs used on soldiers in the Vietnam War, or was it about.....? I don't really know. Did Adrian Lyne? Though Tim Robbins performance is quite admirable, and the film achieves scenes and moments of frightening inspiration, it is never consistent and never manages to settle on a theme. A sad waste of potential.
Sunday, July 7, 1991 - Greater Union Melbourne