The Jacket (2005)

Nine months later, hitchhiking along a snowbound Vermont highway, Starks encounters a broken down pick-up truck. The driver, a drunken, disoriented mother named Jean, and her eight-year-old daughter, Jackie, are stranded at the roadside. With Jean too drunk to speak with him, Starks approaches Jackie and offers his help and gets the truck started.

Starks continues hitchhiking, and is picked up by a station wagon driven by a young man headed for the Canadian border. Shortly afterward, the car is pulled over by the police and Starks blacks out. When he awakens, he finds himself on trial for murder in a small town court.

Found not guilty by reason of insanity, Starks is committed to Alpine Grove, a state institution for the criminally insane. There a staff physician, Dr. Becker subjects Starks to a jarring experimental treatment involving mind-altering drugs and claustrophobic physical restraint. Once medicated, Starks is wrapped in jacket-like restraints and left alone for hours at a

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...it is nice to see a new psychological thriller that I do not absolutely loathe. The movie was very entertaining, and it did bring some interesting ideas to the table. There is no doubt that the actors or veteran avante-garde filmmaker John Maybury hastalent, I just wish that they could have used it to bring a few more original elements to the story of “The Jacket.” 

Ultimately, The Jacket is a film that is destined to underwhelm. If the spinning chair footage from The Ring was enough to make you clear your poopchute in fright, by all means gets stuck in to this flick and stand around the watercooler on Monday talking of how eery it was. And then wake up to yourself… wimp. 

--Chris Parry (eFilmCritic.com)

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"The Jacket" moves like a thriller yet rarely does anything thrilling. Take out all the obvious marks of thriller-dom -- the tense music, the flashy editing, the frightened looks on people's faces -- and you'd have a decent psychological drama. It's not that it fails as a movie altogether; it's just that it fails to be what it's trying to be. C

--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)

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Ultimately, The Jacket plays things straight, and is more straightforward than it might initially seem to be. The time lines may not be linear, but the storyline is. 

--James Berardinelli (ReelViews)

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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. 

--Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)

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Hands down, The Jacket is one of the year’s best films. 

--Blake French (FilmCritic.com)

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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. 

--Kyle Smith (New York Post)

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Cast

Adrien Brody King Kong, The Pianist, The Village Keira Knightley Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Love Actually Kris Kristofferson Planet of the Apes, Blade II, Blade Jennifer Jason Leigh Road to Perdition, eXistenZ, The Machinist Kelly Lynch Charlie's Angels, Cocktail, Drugstore Cowboy Brad Renfro Ghost World, Sleepers, The Client Daniel Craig Casino Royale, Road to Perdition, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider [more]

Music By

Brian Eno Heat, Dune, The Beach

The movie unfolds in a way meant to maximize confusion, throwing an audience into a heightened state of anxiety. C+ --Robert Denerstein "The Jacket" is exceptionally ugly and dreary. It's like being trapped in someone's acid trip, always trying to figure out what's going on. It expects us to find significance in weirdness and apathy.  --Ed Blank This said, "The Jacket" deserves good marks for ambition despite its flaws.  --David Sterritt As a whole, the film ends up a mixed but mostly satisfying bag. 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.  --Uncle Creepy (horrorchannel.com)

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