Every now and then, excellent movies are made, and very little marketing really goes towards them.
The Jacket is such a movie. It was released in theaters earlier this year. I've had the DVD from blockbuster here for a few weeks now, (possibly over a month now...) and have meant to watch it. Now that I finally got around to it, read on for the review.

Here is the imdb page on it..

And imdb's summary:

The film centers on a military veteran who returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. When he is accused of murder and lands in an asylum, a well-meaning doctor puts him on a heavy course of experimental drugs, restrains him in a jacket-like device, and locks him away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. The process sends him on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death (but not who did it or how) in four day's time. Now the only question that matters is: can the woman he meets in the future save him?

The movie starts in the early 90's, Jack Starks (the main character) was in the Gulf War and was shot in the head, but somehow survived.

In the beginning of the movie, Jack meets a young girl who looks to be somewhere around six or seven on the side of the road. Her mom is wasted, sick on the side of the road, and their truck is broke down.

Skip ahead a little bit, and Jack is again walking down a snow covered road, and gets picked up buy a guy in a station wagon. After a while, they get pulled over and the driver kills the cop and essentially frames Jack.

Due to Jack's amnesia, he doesn't remember exactly what happened, or how, and he ends up being found not guilty on grounds of insanity, and is sent to the asylum.

The movie is in many ways a psychological thriller. It some ways it reminds me (at times) of Momento with the amnesia and constant shifting of time periods. (And that is really where the similarities end, and after a while, you actually understand whats happening here, more so then in Memento).

The movie had an excellent cast, and excellent acting in my opinion. I was slightly disappointed with the writing in a couple places with Jack. In a couple scene's he seemed a lot more vengeful then would expect given his character throughout the rest of the movie.

I will point out that time travel is used in the movie as well, and it's used and seen in a rather blatantly unscientific way (and the way its used is why I compared this to Memento). Normally time travel is used in conjunction with devices, or wormholes, or other phenomenon, not simply a side effect of a drug that appears to help bring back memories.

But if you push that minor detail aside, and wish to see a good movie purely from the perspective of a good movie (good cinematography, acting, etc), I would definitely suggest The Jacket.