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Scott Von Doviak, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: For a while, the moody atmosphere and trippy visuals add up to an unnerving experience. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: A movie that seems intelligent until you catch on that it's all images and attitude without much underneath. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A complex puzzle cooked up by some admittedly smart people, but populated by characters too artificial to ever care about. Read more
Kevin M. Williams, Chicago Tribune: What sounds formulaic is elevated by strong performances -- particularly from Brody -- interesting plot revelations and an approach that forces you to look into your soul, one of the scariest places for many of us. Read more
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 work. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: It just bounces Brody back and forth in time and yanks us around, and around, and around. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Too littered with loose ends and 'huh?' moments to work as the edgy sci-fi thriller-romance it wants to be. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: On the surface, the film comes off as fairly clever, but the more you examine the plot, the more flaws you'll see. Read more
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. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Even the viewer who finds the premise too far-fetched to accept may nonetheless come away impressed with the ambitiousness of the attempt and even be moved by the emotional effect of the film's well-staged concluding sequence. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: At times it seems like a daring mindbender. At other times, it just seems unintentionally absurd. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: There's a lot to think about. What's lacking here is something to care about. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Feels like it must be the 12th jolt-laden morbid thriller to open this year, yet it's the first that doesn't insult your intelligence. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: It's basically Mr. Brody's movie, and his performance is riveting. Read more
Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: While screenwriter Massy Tadjedin's derivative premise definitely taps into universal fears, director John Maybury ... lays it on a bit thick. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: One can't help but wonder how American soldiers in Iraq would respond to seeing their inescapable reality used as fodder for an escapist thriller in which the real enemy is bad hospital management. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A sci-fi fantasy with an unusual bit of gravity and style. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: I enjoyed the electroshock ambience, and accepted the ride as a jumped-up sci-fi mystery. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Make no mistake, this movie is terribly silly, but it's not completely terrible. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The acting is uniformly excellent. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: A gruesome, pretentious and incompetent mess. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A somber piece of intellectually challenging entertainment. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: I appreciate the way the story is developed, taking audiences into The Twilight Zone, but not leaving them stranded there. Read more
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. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Apparently, there's a lot less to this picture than meets the eye. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: It suffers from a common thriller syndrome these days: the desire to explain away madness with logic. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: 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. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: The hero's condition, which goes unconnected to the amnesia of war, instead becomes an allegory for a filmmaker forgetting his roots. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The Jacket is doing nothing but sampling elements of Jacob's Ladder, The Silence of the Lambs and Memento. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: 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. Read more