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So-so
Avg. Critic Score: 44 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
16 Iffy for 16+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 80
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    Admittedly, The Jacket is not likely to be everyone's cup of tea, but filmmaker John Maybury has forged a mesmerizing mindblower. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Director John Maybury has a feel for shock rhythms, and he's skillful at keeping you guessing, but after a while you want your questions to cohere into compelling answers, and in The Jacket they don't, quite. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    The Jacket is a confused attempt at headiness that feels like a poor man's "Memento." Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Intermittently compelling but unavoidably improbable. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    You can sense an impulse toward a better film, and Adrien Brody and Keira Knightley certainly take it seriously, but the time-travel whiplash effect sets in, and it becomes, as so many time travel movies do, an exercise in early entrances, late exits, futile regrets. Read full review

  • 50
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Though shot for maximum moodiness by the gifted Peter Deming ("Mulholland Drive"), the movie straps you in for a head trip that promises hallucinatory wonders but delivers the same old Hollywood formula with sugar on top. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Scott Foundas

    A movie as lacking in personality as its amnesiac protagonist. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    This movie is terribly silly, but it's not completely terrible. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Carla Meyer

    [Brody's] mannered performance helps downgrade this picture from a middling sci-fi film to a bad, borderline-camp sci-fi film. Read full review

  • 20
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    In this case, the adage would go something like "material, material, material," also known as the Nicolas Cage Rule: Good acting can't overcome bad taste. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+ Smart thriller is for mature older teens only.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie includes intense, graphic, grisly, and disturbing images; guns and other kinds of violence (characters killed); and abusive medical treatment. There's a sexual situation and some sexual and non-sexual nudity. Characters drink, smoke, abuse drugs, and use some strong language. Some audience members may find the themes of the film upsetting as well.
  • Families can talk about how we can test what we think we know to determine what is real. Have you ever had a strong memory of something that happened to you and then realized it was from a movie or photograph? How do we know which experiments to allow, understanding that that some will fail and leave the subjects worse off than they were?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Not an issue
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Intense, disturbing, and graphic images, violence (including guns), murder, reference to child molestation, shock therapy.
  • sex false5 Sex: Sexual situation, some nudity.
  • language false5 Language: Some very strong language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false5 Drinking, drugs and smoking: A lot of smoking, drinking, abuse of medication, character abuses drugs.

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So-so 97 fan reviews

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