Smart thriller is for mature older teens only.

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

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

Ultimately it doesn't amount to much, but like Starks' drug-induced trip, The Jacket is about the journey not the destination.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 10, 2005

The acting is uniformly excellent.

| Mar 17, 2005

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 8, 2005

It just bounces Brody back and forth in time and yanks us around, and around, and around.

Full Review | Mar 7, 2005

Forgettable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 7, 2005

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 5, 2005

A great many supernatural things happen in The Jacket, though they ultimately make little sense and amount to even less.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 5, 2005

The Jacket is doing nothing but sampling elements of Jacob's Ladder, The Silence of the Lambs and Memento.

| Mar 4, 2005

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.

| Mar 4, 2005

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.

| Mar 4, 2005

It suffers from a common thriller syndrome these days: the desire to explain away madness with logic.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2005

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 4, 2005

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 4, 2005

I enjoyed the electroshock ambience, and accepted the ride as a jumped-up sci-fi mystery.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 4, 2005

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2005

At times it seems like a daring mindbender. At other times, it just seems unintentionally absurd.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2005

Apparently, there's a lot less to this picture than meets the eye.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2005

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.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Mar 4, 2005