The Jacket is a cool psychological thriller with great acting and a story that keeps you guessing.
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03/04/05
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
The Jacket is doing nothing but sampling elements of Jacob's Ladder, The Silence of the Lambs and Memento.
03/04/05
Here, Maybury is just arty for art's sake, filming entire scenes in close-ups so big that viewers leave the theater knowing way more than they ever wanted to about the lead actors' bridgework.
03/04/05
Pic begins as a potentially intriguing study of the depersonalizing effects of warfare, only to end up a pastiche of time-travel and psycho-ward movie cliches.
03/04/05
Top CriticThis heady mix of fantasy, romance and mind-bending monkeyshines survived a tortured development process ... to emerge, if not unscathed, intact and intense.
03/04/05
It suffers from a common thriller syndrome these days: the desire to explain away madness with logic.
03/04/05
Maybury tricks everything up with a hyperkinetic directing style that relies heavily on constant flashes, trippy quick cuts, icily bleached-out colors and frequent, odd close-ups of everyone's dental work.
03/04/05
Maybury's attempt at a more mainstream movie is really just a simple love story cloaked in a lot of metaphysical mumbo-jumbo.
03/04/05
A dark and twisted gothic about a man's struggle to make sense of a senseless world. Whether you make much sense of this film is an entirely different story.
03/04/05
Although there are striking moments, thanks to Maybury's feel for atmosphere, The Jacket is pretty hollow to the core.
03/04/05
A clever story with a decent cast but lacks the sort of skilled handling (paging M. Night Shyamalan) that might have made it a noteworthy supernatural thriller.
03/04/05
A somber piece of intellectually challenging entertainment.
03/04/05
A sci-fi fantasy with an unusual bit of gravity and style.
03/04/05
The Jacket is a horrifyingly strange and cluttered but innately fascinating movie-going experience, especially with Adrien Brody's layered performance at the helm.
03/04/05
The characters in the tepid sci-fi thriller The Jacket, starring Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley, are so flat and the dialogue so dull you expect it to be one of those movies whose existence is justified by a big final twist.
03/04/05
I enjoyed the electroshock ambience, and accepted the ride as a jumped-up sci-fi mystery.
03/04/05
Even the viewer who finds the premise too far-fetched to accept may nonetheless come away impressed with the ambitiousness of the attempt and even be moved by the emotional effect of the film's well-staged concluding sequence.
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Top CriticWorks best if you turn off your mind, relax and let Adrien Brody's jittery paranoia fill you with dread.
03/04/05
The great mystery of The Jacket is how so many really terrific performers got sucked into such a silly movie.
03/04/05
There are some intriguing twists and a pervasive feeling of unholy danger.
03/04/05
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