The Jacket Reviews

The Jacket Review
by Robin Clifford (Rating: B-)
Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) is a member of an army unit fighting in Iraq during the Gulf War. At the end of a tense raid, he tries to befriend a young boy, who pulls a gun and shoots the soldier in the head. Thought to be dead, Jack miraculously comes...more

The Jacket Review
by Laura Clifford (Rating: B-)
Jack Starks (Adrien Brody, "The Village") returns from the Gulf War in 1991 after having been shot by a small Iraqi boy he was trying to comfort. Twelve months later in his home state of Vermont two more life altering events happen. First he meets a...more

The Jacket Review
by Bill Clark
The Jacket is a terrific exercise in energy, storytelling, and exploring the supernatural. For those viewers who are patient, there is nary a dull moment in this puzzler that successfully meshes elements from all different genres. The outcome is a...more

The Jacket Review
by Susan Granger (Rating: 8/10)
Susan Granger's review of "The Jacket" (Warner Independent/Mandalay Pictures) From the theatrical Coming Attractions, I assumed this was a gothic horror picture. It is. But it has a time-traveling metaphysical twist that's both exciting and...more

The Jacket Review
by Jon Popick (Rating: 7/10)
When I hear a film will, in any way, shape or form, deal with time traveling, there's usually a severe rolling of the eyes, followed by an audible grunt or two. There have been brilliant films in the genre, like Primer, but some of the worst films in...more

The Jacket Review
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 2/4)
"I was twenty-seven years old the first time I died," Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) explains to us in voice-over. Although it begins briefly with the Gulf War in 1991, most of THE JACKET is set in 2007 and in flashback in 1992 when Jack dies a second time....more