Adrien Brody stars as Jack Starks in this cross between Jacob's Ladder and The Butterfly Effect.
While it starts off by making you think that you're about to watch a war movie, it's definitely not a war movie. That just gets things started. Once Starks dies on the battlefield, he is found walking down a road, where he helps a little girl and her mother get their car started. Later on the same road, he ends up getting arrested as an officer is shot and killed. We never find out if he did it or imagined the other person who did the killing to mask part of his mind.
But that gets him into the asylum where he is periodically placed into a "jacket" and then slid into a drawer (a morgue drawer), where he flirts with the future. In this future he meets the grown-up version of the little girl he met on the road, and in her he finds his own salvation of sorts, but he ends up meeting his own mortality in the process.
It's an interesting exercise, though it probably doesn't make much sense, and it is certainly a slow-mover and it doesn't really reveal much in the story or about life in general. It's a couple hours I wish I had back.
Rated R for violence, language and brief sexuality/nudity.
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