The Jacket Reviews
Las Vegas Weekly
The ending is a giant anticlimax that only gets more frustrating the more you think about it.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Entertainment Insiders
The Jacket is ultimately a film about nothing important although the director and cast desperately want you to think otherwise.
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| Original Score: 1/4
CHUD
The Jacket's not a failure, and I'm sure that it will have its fans. It's not a movie I ever need to see again, though.
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| Original Score: 6.2/10
Top CriticThe movie, taking its cue from Jack's deep weariness and depression, trudges through its paces as if it were deep and meaningful, which I am afraid it is not.
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| Original Score: 2/4
There's a lot to think about. What's lacking here is something to care about.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Three Movie Buffs
Save your money, wait for the inevitable extended version DVD, which will hopefully explain itself better then this version does.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Arizona Daily Star
Like being pushed into a swimming pool with all your clothes on or hitting the curb on your bike and tumbling onto a patch of soft grass.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
ComingSoon.net
Fails to deliver because we've seen a lot of it before, only done better
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| Original Score: 4/10
It just bounces Brody back and forth in time and yanks us around, and around, and around.
Slant Magazine
A great many supernatural things happen in The Jacket, though they ultimately make little sense and amount to even less.
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| Original Score: 2/4
EricDSnider.com
Moves like a thriller yet rarely does anything thrilling.
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| Original Score: C
Flipside Movie Emporium
The tremendous potential lying at its heart remains unrealized, despite good intentions and an apparently earnest effort.
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| Original Score: C+
FilmJerk.com
The real shock of Jacket is actress Keira Knightley, who bumbles the critical role of Jackie with her clownish method acting and odd American-accented line delivery.
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| Original Score: C
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.
eFilmCritic.com
A morose and bleached-looking affair, with depressing music by Brian Eno to match.
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| Original Score: 2/5
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.
| Original Score: 1.5/4
Movie Eye
...feels very laborious and restrictive in its hallucinatory haze. What it boils down to is this: if The Jacket doesn't fit, you must not acquit.
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| Original Score: 2/4
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
Horror.com
Not original and doesn't have an awful lot aside from the good acting to recommend it.
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
If you've ever wanted to get a really good look at Adrien Brody's iris or Kris Kristofferson's incisors, this is the movie for you.
