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.
It just bounces Brody back and forth in time and yanks us around, and around, and around.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
7 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:
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:
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.