"You Don't Know Jack" sheds a lot of positive light on Dr. Death ala Jack Kevorkian and his infamous life involved with assisting people in suicide. I do not know how much of the light he deserved, but the movie makes him very interesting and out to be quite the humanitarian. A movie that makes you want to go learn! Al Pacino is deserving of every award they want to hand him for this one. His performance was fully engaging, he became a character aside from the character that Al Pacino himself seems to be.
As serious as the movie subject matter is: death along with the moral and legal trouble the good Dr. finds himself in, there is a lot of humor to be found, and it is in this that I felt the movie really portrayed what it is to be human and real.
My biggest gripe with the movie is that for the first some-odd minutes of the movie I did not know jack about what was going on. I don't know if the editor is to blame, or lack of footage, or what, but the movie was very disjointed before settling in. I am lucky I stuck it out because I really connected with "You Don't Know Jack."
As serious as the movie subject matter is: death along with the moral and legal trouble the good Dr. finds himself in, there is a lot of humor to be found, and it is in this that I felt the movie really portrayed what it is to be human and real.
My biggest gripe with the movie is that for the first some-odd minutes of the movie I did not know jack about what was going on. I don't know if the editor is to blame, or lack of footage, or what, but the movie was very disjointed before settling in. I am lucky I stuck it out because I really connected with "You Don't Know Jack."