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"&lt;p&gt;Bruce Joel Rubin&amp;apos;s &amp;apos;Jacob&amp;apos;s Ladder&amp;apos; was chosen by &lt;em&gt;American Film&lt;/em&gt; a while back as one of the great unproduced screenplays. Too bad somebody had to spoil things by producing it. There is an intriguing premise: Jacob, played by Tim Robbins as if the role meant something, is a New York mailman with a PhD who is haunted by memories of being in Vietnam, where he was bayoneted in the stomach. He also has waking nightmares featuring vibrating heads and a reptile creature who feels up Jacob&amp;apos;s girlfriend Jezzie (the criminally wasted Elizabeth Pe&amp;#xF1;a). Jacob is soon spinning a conspiracy theory about the army, a hallucinatory drug and a plot to kill him.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rubin, who scripted the summer smash &lt;em&gt;Ghost,&lt;/em&gt; has again tapped into a trendy occult theme. But &lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/jacobs-ladder-19901102\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jacob&amp;apos;s Ladder&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; also raises fact-based questions about government drug experiments and the real Vietnam veterans who might have been affected by them. They&amp;apos;re good questions, but they go unanswered. In the hands of ultraslick director Adrian Lyne &lt;em&gt;(Flashdance, 91/2 Weeks, Fatal Attraction),&lt;/em&gt; the film becomes nothing less and certainly nothing more than the latest in designer horror shows. There&amp;apos;s a word for a movie that dresses up the usual cheap tricks with real human suffering and a bogus patina of truth: offensive.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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