Review of Johnny Got His Gun (2008) by Jason B — 26 Jan 2008

Can you even begin to imagine what it would be like to still be alive...but everyone else around you thinks your dead? This film is a nightmarish tale of a soldier "killed" in WWI. In a devastating explosion, he loses his arms, legs and majority of his face. The doctor's believe that there couldn't possibly be any brain activity left. But we, the viewers, know different. As the doctor's keep this "living" body alive so they can study him more closely, we are taken on a harrowing journey through the mind of this man who slowly discovers what he has become. He can not speak. He can not see or hear. He can't even communicate through hand signals. As he slowly dissolves into madness, he sees blurring images of his past life and hallucinations of the coming afterlife (including Jesus played by Donald Sutherland). It's during a flashback conversation that he remembers the words of his father: "Do you remember your Morse Code?".

K-I-L-L M-E.