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The Jacket (2005) | User Rating
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Original title: Jacket, The Directed by
John Maybury Written by
Tom Bleecker, Marc Rocco Cast
Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch [more]
Release Date
• USA: Mar 4, 2005
• UK: 13 May 2005
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 21, 2005
Budget $28,500,000
BoxOffice: $6.3M
Official Website:
The Jacket Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for violence, language and brief sexuality/nudity.
Running Time
1 hour, 42 minutes
Country USA, Germany
Production Companies
Mandalay Pictures, Warner Independent Pictures, 2929 Productions (in association with), VIP 2 Medienfonds, VIP 3 Medienfonds, Rising Star (in association with), Section Eight Ltd.
Studio Warner Independent
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Jacket (2005)
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The Jacket Reviews |
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. [read review] 
--Chris Parry (eFilmCritic.com)
"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. [read review] C
--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
...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.” [read review] 
-- (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
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. [read review] 
--Kyle Smith (New York Post)
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. [read review] 
--Uncle Creepy (horrorchannel.com)
"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. [read review]
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. [read review] 
--James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
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. [read review] 
--Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
The movie unfolds in a way meant to maximize confusion, throwing an audience into a heightened state of anxiety. [read review] C+
This said, "The Jacket" deserves good marks for ambition despite its flaws. [read review]
Hands down, The Jacket is one of the year’s best films. [read review] 
--Blake French (FilmCritic.com)
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