The film is noted for its technical prowess, witty dialogues and lyrics, combined with an art that has become a trademark of Soori's rustic feel cinema.

[6][7] Jackie was also considered one of the trendsetting films of the Kannada cinema and one of the landmark movies in Puneeth Rajkumar's career.

[10] A portion of the song Kannalle Eno from Rajkumar's 1980 movie Vasantha Geetha was re-used in the title track of the film.

The film was re- released grandly with upgraded technical features on 15 March 2024 to commemorate Puneeth's birth anniversary.

Jackie dreams of making it big without hard work and is also an expert card player and thinks he can repay all his debts with earnings from it.

Jackie gets a clue about Prasanna alias Jooli after being friendly to constable "Meese" Bheemanna which leads him to suspicious activities of a gang transporting girls abroad in oil tankers headed by Mithai.

The girls are saved and the CID officer realizes the situation; he congratulates Jackie for solving the case and kills Seena and Rama in an encounter.

The production of the film started on 3 March at Kantheerava Studio and took place for 95 days in Bengaluru, Mysore, Italy and Namibia.

[13] Jackie received an opening unprecedented in Kannada cinema after it was purchased by distributors at astronomical prices many days before the film's release.

[21][22][23][24] Jackie was released overseas by Bevin Exports in the countries of Australia, UK, Singapore, Germany, US, Dubai and New Zealand among others.

[30] The Telugu dubbed version was produced by Nadella Sujatha through Suraj Films Studio and was released in Andhra Pradesh on 6 May 2011.

The audiences will be pleased to watch this film, which is high on entertainment quotient, strong on visuals and packed with breathtaking action.

"[33] Shruti Indira Lakshminarayana of Rediff described the film as a one-time watch and wrote "Jackie caters both to the class and the mass.

[36][37] TELiBrahma developed an exclusive mobile application for the film and distributed it across about 100 of its proprietary technology called BluFi locations in Bengaluru.

[11][12] All lyrics are written by Yogaraj BhatLeaked SongThe soundtrack of the film created quite a stir before the audio release when the song "Ekka Raja Rani" was leaked on YouTube.