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The Jackal (1997)
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The best way to enjoy this 1997 thriller is to forget the much better film that inspired it (1973's The Day of the Jackal) and get whatever kicks you can from this heavy-metal remake. It's not bad as hokey thrillers go, but all of the original film's suspenseful finesse has been traded in (not traded up) for bigger, bolder action and nonsensical plotting. It's as if Hollywood had forgotten to create excitement without resorting to overblown action and heavy hardware, but there's ample compensation in the casting of Bruce Willis and Richard Gere. Willis is the elusive assassin known only as the Jackal, whose latest target (he uses a...
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I wish that people would quit trying to compare this film to The Day of the Jackal. There is nothing to compare. This is an original that just happens to have a similar name. Yes, the story is similar, but so is the Clint Eastwood/John Malkovich story In the Line of Fire.
This movie was campy fun with some favorite and...
(complete The Jackal review by B Movie Ben)
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(4/13/2007)