Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
DVD Release Date: June 21, 2005
Stats: 3,735 reviews
I like movies with convoluted plots - as long as I can figure them out. This one fits the bill. While being treated for mental illness in 1992, Jack (Adrein Brody) is transported into 2007. In his trips back and forth between the two eras, Jack has to resolve various issues.
An Iraq war veteran sent home with serious head trauma is convicted of a murder he does not remember committing. While enduring an experimental "treatment" at the hands of a sadistic doctor, he suddenly finds himself somewhere and somewhen else. This off beat sci-fi fantasy has a...( read more)
"Terror has a new name."
A troubled war veteran tries to unlock his memories of a terrible crime in this stylish thriller, the first American project for British filmmaker John Maybury. In 1991, Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) was an American soldier serving in the Persian Gul...( read more)
A really cool concept, nicely executed...but not as "tight" as it could have been.
An amazing cast (some in minor rules) and a mostly well written script.
I feel that it would have been even more powerful minus the final 3 minute "tie it all up in a bow" (felt like an after...( read more)
Brody's performance is simply amazing. The way he devours the role and carries the movie over his shoulders from start to finish is simply breath-taking. He gives some outstanding acting lessons as he usually does, from "Oxygen" to "The Village" and of course "The Pianist" he is ...( read more)
Good movie, proably the only one where Keira Knightley isnt the love interest.
unexpected pllot twist, but still weird in the end left with questions. Besides Daniel Craigs' bangin' American accent, the movie wAs just ok...
Would be good just for Keira Knightley, but the story is very good, a movie I saw two or three times.
Rather strange movie, but interesting in conception. Chemistry between characters is believably, and many elements of the story are interesting.
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 ... full review
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 justi... full review
Oscar winner Adrien Brody---tall, thin, twitching, and painfully earnest---makes for a convincing romantic lead. full review
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. full review
Too much light shines through the holes of the plot, the tone gets stuck on the B-movie level, and the underpinnings of romance and revenge are trite for all the fancy trimmings. full review
Make no mistake, this movie is terribly silly, but it's not completely terrible. full review
Straps you in for a head trip that promises hallucinatory wonders but delivers the same old Hollywood formula with sugar on top. full review
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