The Jacket Critic Reviews

The acting makes the difference, and in Jacket it rises above the needs of the material.Read the full review

You can sense an impulse toward a better film, and Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley certainly take it seriously, but the time-travel whiplash effect sets in, and it becomes, as so many time travel movies do, an exercise in early entrances, late exits, futile regrets.Read the full review

Director John Maybury has a feel for shock rhythms, and he's skillful at keeping you guessing, but after a while you want your questions to cohere into compelling answers, and in The Jacket they don't, quite.Read the full review

Intermittently compelling but unavoidably improbable.Read the full review

This movie probably falls within the purview of a "love it/hate it" subgenre of the psychological thriller.Read the full review

Though shot for maximum moodiness by the gifted Peter Deming ("Mulholland Drive"), the movie straps you in for a head trip that promises hallucinatory wonders but delivers the same old Hollywood formula with sugar on top.Read the full review

[Brody's] mannered performance helps downgrade this picture from a middling sci-fi film to a bad, borderline-camp sci-fi film.Read the full review

Begins too cruelly and ends too sappily but holds you somewhere between the two extremes until the semisweet finale.Read the full review

Admittedly, The Jacket is not likely to be everyone's cup of tea, but filmmaker John Maybury has forged a mesmerizing mindblower.Read the full review