A.O. Scott in the New York Times describes The Jacket, starring Adrien Brody, this way: "It starts out trying to be craftily clever -- with lots of fast, disorienting visual effects, echoey music and intimations of politics and paranoia -- and ends up artlessly dumb. In other words, it improves as it goes along." On the other hand, Glenn Whipp in the Los Angeles Daily News advises: "The Jacket works best if you turn off your mind, relax and let Adrien Brody's jittery paranoia fill you with dread." |