The Jacket

You know those dark adult thrillers that are just very cool movies? That when they finish you wondered what you just saw and you have to replay it in your mind to see if it makes sense? Movies with characters that are not sure what's going on themselves and don't know where they are or even when? There's usually time traveling, like 1995's 12 Monkeys, with Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt, a movie that has a similar idea to this one, but it's completely different at the same time.
You can add the fucking cool and great The Jacket to those lists now.

We follow the story of Jack Starks, a war veteran (Iraq, 1991) who goes home after being shot to death in the head, only he didn't die. A year later, he encounters a woman and her little girl on the road having car trouble. The woman is wasted and puking on the side, so she helps them fix the car and they leave, not before him having a conversation with the little girl, to whom he gives his dog tags as a gift.
He goes on and gets a ride from some guy, but they're soon stopped by the cops and the guy kills and cop, who shoots Jack leaving him unconscious. When he wakes up he's being accused of murder, but the doctor dictates he's mentally troubled because of the war and they send him to an asylum, where a doctor conducts experimental treatment on him, drugging him, putting him in a jacket like those for crazy people, and locking him in a drawer in the basement for hours.
But something happens to Jack there, he starts seeing images, and in a blink of an eye he's somewhere else, no idea where but he's ok. He meets Jackie, a low life waitress who invites him home so he wouldn't freeze in the cold. Soon he founds dog tags, his dog tags, and realizes that Jackie is the same little girl he met on the road a few days ago, only that it happened 15 years ago. Jackie is grown woman now, and it's 2007, and he learns that he actually died 15 years ago in a few days while in the asylum.
From there he jumps back and forth in time, only when he's put in the jacket and locked up, and never knowing for how long, so he and Jackie try to find out what happened and how he died, so he can try and stop it in the past.

Adrien Brody plays Jack, Oscar Winner Adrien Brody that is. His performances and overall movies after The Pianist have been from bad to ok, but he's great here. Keira Knightley plays the older Jackie, and while I normally hate most of her previous performances, and mostly because of her and not because of bad writing, I really liked her here. I should say that she has a couple of topless scenes here which added to an overall great performances.
Kris Kristofferson plays the doctor experimenting on him and Jennifer Jason Leigh plays a psychiatrist at the Asylum.

It makes you think, it keeps you tense, the performances are awesome, and though some parts still don't, it makes sense at the end, but even if it wouldn't, it would still be awesome.