A complex puzzle cooked up by some admittedly smart people, but populated by characters too artificial to ever care about.
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03/03/05
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
A movie that seems intelligent until you catch on that it's all images and attitude without much underneath.
03/03/05
It draws you into its grim and mysterious world through the first half of the movie, then falls apart like a house of cards in a hurricane.
03/03/05
Makes little sense and much ado.
03/03/05
Admirable experiment in psychological science fiction.
03/03/05
A mesmerizing, mind-bending, time-traveling, chillingly surreal psychological thriller
03/03/05
This is a smart thriller, with above-average heft and imagination in the story, the structure, and especially in the striking visuals.
03/03/05
Not original and doesn’t have an awful lot aside from the good acting to recommend it.
03/03/05
While screenwriter Massy Tadjedin's derivative premise definitely taps into universal fears, director John Maybury ... lays it on a bit thick.
03/03/05
An unexpectedly moving picture.
03/03/05
What sounds formulaic is elevated by strong performances -- particularly from Brody -- interesting plot revelations and an approach that forces you to look into your soul, one of the scariest places for many of us.
03/03/05
A gruesome, pretentious and incompetent mess.
03/03/05
Starts out like a ball of jittery fire ... but becomes increasingly, distressingly square as it nears the homestretch. Its theory could stand a little more chaos.
03/03/05
Too littered with loose ends and 'huh?' moments to work as the edgy sci-fi thriller-romance it wants to be.
03/03/05
What it all means doesn't really become clear until the end, and at that point the unraveled mysteries seem a touch trite.
03/03/05
Feels like it must be the 12th jolt-laden morbid thriller to open this year, yet it's the first that doesn't insult your intelligence.
03/03/05
One can't help but wonder how American soldiers in Iraq would respond to seeing their inescapable reality used as fodder for an escapist thriller in which the real enemy is bad hospital management.
03/03/05
Maybury, whose background in experimental film influences his style, keeps The Jacket grounded in the familiar while its sense of reality remains shrewdly vague.
03/03/05
Raises unsettling questions about identity and about how accurately we perceive the world we think we live in.
03/03/05
The hero's condition, which goes unconnected to the amnesia of war, instead becomes an allegory for a filmmaker forgetting his roots.
03/03/05
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