This horror meets science fiction mindbender wrapped in a twisted love story with suspense focuses on the emotional truths, culminating in a satisfying, rewatchable what if that stays with you long after the viewing ends.

| Jul 25, 2023

The Jacket is definitely one of those jumbles of a movie that I would normally rail against. And yet, in this case, the film still somehow manages to hang together as whole.

| Feb 28, 2020

The film is energetic. But with a rather conventional love story at its heart -- not particularly convincingly acted by Brody and Knightley -- this is one jacket that doesn't fit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2019

Smart thriller is for mature older teens only.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 13, 2008

A morose and bleached-looking affair, with depressing music by Brian Eno to match.

| Original Score: D | Sep 24, 2007

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.

Full Review | May 29, 2007

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 25, 2006

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"

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 31, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

film whose quality defies its script

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 1, 2005

Conta com conceitos interessantes, embora demore um pouco mais do que deveria para revel-los para o espectador.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 7, 2005

Ambitious-verging-on-pretentious screenplay adroitly lensed by a director with impressive formal command.

| Original Score: B | Aug 31, 2005

It doesn't wash - they just end up with hogwash...

| Aug 30, 2005

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 5, 2005

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.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 18, 2005

| Jun 17, 2005