The Jacket
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 Released: June 21, 2005
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April 10, 2009I 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.
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January 28, 2009An 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 )
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January 7, 2009"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 ) -
September 29, 2008A 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 ) -
August 30, 2008Brody'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 )
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July 1, 2009Uhm a decir vdd no capto mi atencion del todo pero el hecho de ver a Brody con Keira es algo interesante, creo q sus personajes lograron una buena quimica, sin embargo esperaba mas de esta pelicula.
"La vida comienza cuando aceptamos nuestra mortalidad"
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The Jacket
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March 5, 2005
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
March 4, 2005
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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
March 4, 2005
Kyle Smith, New York Post
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
March 4, 2005
Marcy Dermansky, About.com
Oscar winner Adrien Brody---tall, thin, twitching, and painfully earnest---makes for a convincing romantic lead. full review
March 4, 2005
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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
March 4, 2005
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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
March 3, 2005
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Make no mistake, this movie is terribly silly, but it's not completely terrible. full review
February 24, 2005
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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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