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.
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.
– Scott Foundas,
Variety,
4 Mar 2005
rotten:
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.
– Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
4 Mar 2005
rotten:
The Jacket is doing nothing but sampling elements of Jacob's Ladder, The Silence of the Lambs and Memento.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
4 Mar 2005
rotten:
It just bounces Brody back and forth in time and yanks us around, and around, and around.