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The Jacket
Directed by
John Maybury
R
2005
1h 43m
Science Fiction
,
Mystery
,
and more
7.1
44%
73%
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A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them.
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Cast of The Jacket
Adrien Brody
Jack Starks
Keira Knightley
Jackie Price
Kris Kristofferson
Dr. Thomas Becker
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Dr. Beth Lorenson
Kelly Lynch
Jean Price
Brad Renfro
The Stranger
Daniel Craig
Rudy Mackenzie
Angel Coulby
Intern #2
Steven Mackintosh
Dr. Hopkins
Brendan Coyle
Damon
Mackenzie Phillips
Nurse Harding
Laura Marano
Young Jackie
Jason Lewis
Officer Harrison
Richard Dillane
Captain Medley
Jonah Lotan
Intern #1
Nigel Whitmey
Lieutenant
Ian Porter
Major
Angus MacInnes
Judge
Richard Durden
Dr. Hale
Tristan Gemmill
Officer Nash
Colin Stinton
Jury Foreman
Tara Summers
Nurse Nina
Anthony Edridge
Dr. Morgan (as Antony Edridge)
Teresa Gallagher
Nurse Sally
Paul Birchard
Doctor
Kerry Shale
Prosecutor
Angelo Andreou
Babak/Iraqi Boy
Anne Kidd
State Representative
Charneh Demir
Jamile/Iraqi Mother
Frances Brady-Stewart
Woman with Dog
Lolly Susi
Nurse
Garrick Hagon
Defense Lawyer
Fish
Jimmy Fleisher
The Jacket Ratings & Reviews
Myrdlin
February 25, 2025
Terrific acting terrific story terrific ending “We haunt you.” Best line ever.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Smart thriller is for mature older teens only.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
The acting is uniformly excellent.
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
It is the work of conspicuously smart people operating under the assumption that the mass audience whose money they want is pretty dumb, and hence concoct a pretty dumb movie that they believe said audience will mistake for being smart.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
It just bounces Brody back and forth in time and yanks us around, and around, and around.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Forgettable.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
In fact, the film's central twist hinges on the audience becoming as enamored with her as Jack does, and the fact this never happens puts The Jacket in a hole right from the word go.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
A great many supernatural things happen in The Jacket, though they ultimately make little sense and amount to even less.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The Jacket is doing nothing but sampling elements of Jacob's Ladder, The Silence of the Lambs and Memento.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
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.
Variety
Scott Foundas
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.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Maybury tricks everything up with a hyperkinetic directing style that relies heavily on constant flashes, trippy quick cuts, icily bleached-out colors and frequent, odd close-ups of everyone's dental work.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
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.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
I enjoyed the electroshock ambience, and accepted the ride as a jumped-up sci-fi mystery.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Even the viewer who finds the premise too far-fetched to accept may nonetheless come away impressed with the ambitiousness of the attempt and even be moved by the emotional effect of the film's well-staged concluding sequence.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
At times it seems like a daring mindbender. At other times, it just seems unintentionally absurd.
Detroit News
Tom Long
If you can buy the entire psychic flying about and enjoy a bit of sick torture, The Jacket is a lot of fun -- fast, frightening and furiously intent.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
There's a lot to think about. What's lacking here is something to care about.
Dallas Morning News
Philip Wuntch
It's basically Mr. Brody's movie, and his performance is riveting.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The 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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