Jacob's Ladder

Well, thanks for butchering one of my favourite movies of all time.... I thought it might be interesting to see Jacob's Ladder with an updated spin but what these people did to this movie was unforgivable. They completely changed the entire storyline and characters and made what was once an incredible and extremely thought provoking film about the philosophy of life and death and turned it into some half assed movie about a drug for treating PTSD in vets.... I remember watching the original many years ago and talking about it for days after finishing it. DAYS. That's how good that movie was. This one has left my memory before it even really started playing on my tv. Everyone involved with this film should be extremely ashamed of yourselves. I am actually offended here. Please, please, please, stay away from any other loved cult film.

It's going to be hard to top the horror classic and I'm not surprised. Was hoping to be at least mediocre the way many copy-paste-randomize movies are being coughed up these days but went far below expectations. The very things that made the original so scary, dream-like and shocking is simply not there.

Ugh. Just why? Why? Terrible acting, like how did anyone think they were going to top Tim Robbins portrayal? With a C list actor? Made me want to cry. This was just insulting. I'd rather have watched a preschool remake of Gone with the wind. yuck. bad, pathetic, waste of money. Avoid.

This guy can't act for toffee. God knows why he thinks he can act but he has no emotion and one boring and gawpy 'big-jawed' look, all the time. An intensely slow film and a disgrace to directing, screenplay, filming, photography, script, story et al. Avoid like the plague! BTW, same robotic style in The Intruder. Anyway, learnt my lesson and now I know.

This film start with a man hallucinate himself strangle by an unknown people on a stair! As turnout, this film is about solving the mystery of the death of Jacob's brother "Isaac"! Entire film full of boring and confusing hallucination scene of Jacob! Quite bored to be honest! First action scene, when two guys break in Jacob house, he take down one guy and another run away! Later he drive the body away but found out his trunk is empty! Second action scene, a bunch of random person shooting at the two brothers car and they runaway with the car! The most intense scene is the flashback war scene of Jacob at the end of the film! Quite bloody! Big spoiler ahead! The title name "Ladder" actually is the drug Jacob and his friend "Hoffman" invented to test on army veteran! Isaac actually still alive, Jacob just hallucinate himself as Isaac! At the end, Jacob found out the truth of the drug and confront with Hoffman at the lab! Jacob and Hoffman broke a window and fell down on the road! The falling kill Hoffman and Jacob sent to hospital! That's it! Another disappointed film! Not recommended!

I thought the original Jacobs ladder was an excellent film,always one of my favourites so I was excited to see this remake,although I wish I hadn't bothered,not a patch on the original,a very confusing mish mash of total rubbish,and a really bad insult to the excellent original,I don't think there was any need to make this remake,especially when it's as poor as this, just a really terrible remake,wow😢

Someone seriously thought it would be a good idea to take Jacob's Ladder, a classic take on life and death, and turn it into a second-rate thriller with none of the profundity and existential dread of the earlier movie? Was there nobody to say that's a dumb idea, the script is abysmal, you're fired? I approached this with an open mind, I love the original but I thought a remake might be interesting. It wasn't. It was unimaginative and uninspired garbage. Do yourself a huge favor, go watch the earlier version and avoid this one like the plague.

Let's get this out of the way first; the original Jacob's Ladder is a great and unique film that by no means needs an updated version. If you want to watch a great version of it, just go watch the original. Story: While it is a remake, it is not a shot for shot reiteration. Several key story elements have been changed up, but many of the scenes reappear in a different context. The problem with this is that some of them feel shoved in to pay fan service to the original. The changes to the story and characters are at times major, and it feels like they are trying to tell a similar story just with vastly different parameters and it doesn't quite fit right. Acting: The three main actors do a very serviceable job in their respected roles, however Michael Ealy really wasn't able to fully capture the same insane paranoia that Tim Robbins brought. Production: The cinematography, while not bad, was lacking creativity and polish. The sound design was solid throughout. The effects on the other hand were cheesy and repetitious. They drastically overused the sped up head and camera shaking effect, while the cgi would have looked like it was 10 years old, 10 years ago. Seriously, half-assed practical effects would have looked much better than this shoddy cgi. Entertainment: Well, there was little. It honestly felt like one of the most generic and predictable films that I have seen in a long time. I understand that it's difficult to make a remake unique, but this iteration has no heart, enjoyment, or identity to it at all and it just falls flat. Overall: It's not the worst movie that you could watch, but there's really no reason to watch it. It's bland, mediocre, and the only thing scary about it are the bad special effects. Like I said before, if you want to watch a great version of it, just go watch the original. A generous 4/10