Michael Ealy stars in David M. Rosenthal's revamp of the 1990 spine chiller. Intending to modernize the plot of Adrian Lyne's 1990 Tim Robbins-featuring spine chiller, David M. Rosenthal's Jacob's Ladder weaves PTSD, psychoactive medications, family disappointments and wrongdoing into a paranoiac landslide from which its title character (Michael Ealy, of Rosenthal's The Perfect Guy) may never get away. In any case, the film surrenders to an issue almost every story rotating around pipedream and inconsistent observers must survive: If we know from the principal scene that all dangers we see might be envisioned, for what reason would it be a good idea for us to mind? In the first, a chief with unshakable business impulses scarcely shielded watchers from inclination deceived; Rosenthal charges significantly less well.
