Jacob's Ladder (1990)

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"Despite all the confusion, it's a simple case of the script being too ambitious. It may emulate a man experiencing flashbacks, but it doesn't help the audience. - Ian Nathan, Empire Magazine Dull, unimaginative and pretentious. - Variety Staff, Variety ultimately flat on its surrealistic face, the victim of too many fake-art sequences. - Desson Thomson, Washington Post Lyne indulges more in misdirection than in direction; he's a magician turning a sleazy trick. - Hal Hinson, Washington P"

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" Louis: If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth. "

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"viewed: May 15, 2012 Very good movie. At times it was almost scary. There were times when I didn't know what and why is happening. I like movies that make us think and something surprising. I'm glad I could finally watch it."

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"After getting two suggestions, both from Orpheus Anathema, and from Severin Severin, I guess I can't leave this one out. Jacob's Ladder is a difficult movie to describe. It follows along a stream of consciousness, some of which takes place in Vietnam. Actually, it's somewhere around three minutes of the movie. However, the movie does address the use of experimental psychotropic drugs on soldiers, and that's a different aspect of the war than the other movies on this list. Jacob's Ladder is"