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04/01/06
The Jacket (2005)
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Reviews Counted:154
Fresh:68
Rotten:86
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: The Jacket is a case of creepy style over substance.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Thriller
Synopsis: Oscar-winner Adrien Brody (THE PIANIST) stars in THE JACKET, an intense psychological thriller about a Gulf War veteran who finds himself trapped inside another terrifying scenario. Shot in the... [More]
Starring: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Kris Kristofferson
Director: John Maybury
Reviews for The Jacket
Top CriticPart of the fun with twisty time-travel movies is in trying to figure out what's going on and The Jacket delivers nicely on that score, keeping you guessing till the end.
05/14/05
It doesn't really hold together on a logical level, but it's fascinating and powerfully emotional.
03/10/05
Ultimately it doesn't amount to much, but like Starks' drug-induced trip, The Jacket is about the journey not the destination.
05/10/05
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06/07/05
Entertaining B-flick fun, a horror movie with art-house aspirations.
03/04/05
Top CriticMaybury is an artist in addition to a director and it's clear that he has an eye for colour, which he uses cleverly to reinforce emotion.
06/13/08
The acting is uniformly excellent.
03/17/05
Maybury – ...with help from Brody's terrific sympathetic performance – takes us on a trip with its own emotional logic.
03/05/05
For those who are patient, the payoff is one that you won't soon forget.
03/03/05
I left the theater a different person than when I entered ... one of the year’s best films.
03/02/05
Ambitious-verging-on-pretentious screenplay adroitly lensed by a director with impressive formal command.
08/31/05
Raises unsettling questions about identity and about how accurately we perceive the world we think we live in.
03/03/05
A fresh, fun science-lesson for the noggin.... Brody is solid
03/24/05
It's an apt description of how war, waged by the Organization for the Organized, works on its warriors, victims and heroes both.
03/07/05
The Jacket... is stylishly directed with the added benefit that it doesn’t seem like every other horror/fantasy/science fiction movie you’ve seen in the last 10 years.
03/05/05
...it's hard to ignore the audaciousness with which the story unfolds.
03/04/05
It doesn't entirely succeed, but it's certainly a change from today's standard mysteries and horror movies.
03/04/05
film whose quality defies its script
11/01/05
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