This threadbare film plays out like a synopsis for a better movie. The cast seems game, but the movie never fires on all cylinders. Even the title Jack in the Box is a prop that looks cheaply thrown together. Deaths are timed like clockwork but generate little interest as Jack just runs after people and then claws them to death. After the first kill, the film repeats itself in cycles until it plods to an obvious end. OK to leave on while you're doing something else, but not as the focus of a night's entertainment.
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