The Jacket Reviews
Flix Capacitor
There's something about The Jacket which doesn't quite fit, but it plays like an intriguing, winter-y mix of Twelve Monkeys, The Butterfly Effect and The Lawnmower Man.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Common Sense Media
Smart thriller is for mature older teens only.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Eye for Film
Maybury 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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
eFilmCritic.com
A morose and bleached-looking affair, with depressing music by Brian Eno to match.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Long Island Press
There's nothing wrong with a little vicarious experience when you go to the movies, but the director seems to think that his supernatural psycho thriller has to drive you crazy, just to get what it's like to be really insane.
Christianity Today
A solid attempt to wrestle with some big questions. The cast is exemplary and the premise and script are well reasoned and artful. But it doesn't quite come together.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
Movies for the Masses
Tadjenin seems to draw inspiration from two books: "10 ways to copy 12 Monkeys" --a far inferior read to "10 ways to write 12 Monkeys"-- and "Common Sense: A Stranger"
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Dread Central
As incoherent as it is enjoyable, The Jacket hits the marks that it set out to, yet leaves the audience a bit cold with its squeaky clean ending.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Film Threat
The only real scares here take place as images in Brody's head when he hallucinates under Dr. Becker's treatment. The rest of the film has a somewhat sappy quality to it and doesn't deliver any suspense or thrills of any kind.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Draxblog Movie Reviews
film whose quality defies its script
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| Original Score: 7/10
Cinema em Cena
Conta com conceitos interessantes, embora demore um pouco mais do que deveria para revelá-los para o espectador.
| Original Score: 3/5
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
Ambitious-verging-on-pretentious screenplay adroitly lensed by a director with impressive formal command.
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| Original Score: B
Urban Cinefile
It doesn't wash - they just end up with hogwash...
Movie Metropolis
What we get is mostly a convoluted tale that tries hard to seem far more important than it is. In fact, it's all rather banal and sentimental.
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| Original Score: 5/10
ViewLondon
Part 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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
TheMovieReport.com
By basic definition a time-travel yarn, but to say that is to make this rather turgid drama sound more interesting than it is.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Ultimately it doesn't amount to much, but like Starks' drug-induced trip, The Jacket is about the journey not the destination.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Broomfield Enterprise
Brody was over-qualified for this part.
Entertainment Spectrum
The story goes back and forth into the future and then the past and is very disturbing. This is an interesting premise but a little too crazy for me.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Moviehole
A fresh, fun science-lesson for the noggin.... Brody is solid
| Original Score: 3/5
