Fresh
The acting is uniformly excellent.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
The Jacket
Terror has a new name.
2005 · 1h 43m · R
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
John Maybury
Overview
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Director and cast
- John Maybury Director
- Adrien Brody as Jack Starks
- Keira Knightley as Jackie Price
- Kris Kristofferson as Dr. Thomas Becker
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dr. Beth Lorenson
- Kelly Lynch as Jean Price
- Brad Renfro as The Stranger
- Daniel Craig as Rudy Mackenzie
- Angel Coulby as Intern #2
- Steven Mackintosh as Dr. Hopkins
- Brendan Coyle as Damon
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
44%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It just bounces Brody back and forth in time and yanks us around, and around, and around.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
The Jacket is doing nothing but sampling elements of Jacob's Ladder, The Silence of the Lambs and Memento.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Rotten
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.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
Rotten
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.
Scott Foundas, Variety
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