The Jackal

1997

Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller

67
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 24% · 33 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 51% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 123837 123.8K

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Plot summary

Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.


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Top cast

Bruce Willis as The Jackal
Jack Black as Ian Lamont
J.K. Simmons as FBI Agent T. I. Witherspoon
Richard Gere as Declan Mulqueen
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871.66 MB
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23.976 fps
2 hr 4 min
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2 hr 4 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 5 / 10

Way too slow but I like the cold Bruce Willis villain

FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (Sidney Poitier) is working with Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian MVD to take on the Russian mob. In a raid, they kill the brother of mob boss Terek Murad (David Hayman). He hires the Jackal (Bruce Willis) to assassinate a target in revenge for $70 Million. The joint task force is desperate to identify the mysterious Jackal. Basque separatist Isabella Zanconia (Mathilda May) may have seen the Jackal and they use former IRA shooter Declan Mulqueen (Richard Gere) to help track her down. When they tell him the target is FBI Director Donald Brown, he tells them that he actually met the Jackal.

Everything about this movie screams 70s. The pacing is slow like a 70s movie. There are unnecessary side trips. It's a terrorist plot ripped out of a 70s novel. The premise itself is ridiculous. For that amount of money, the Russian mob could hire dozens of killers. Like almost everything in this movie, it feels a little old and outdated. Director Michael Caton-Jones tries his best but this just doesn't have a chance. It's interesting to see Bruce Willis play the calculating assassin but there isn't much else that interest me in this movie.

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10

Poor remake, okay as a stand alone

I saw this back in the day. Unrecognisable from THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, of course, and not a patch on it, but serviceable enough for a late 1990s suspense/action/thriller. You can tell Willis is really enjoying something other than his jaded action star role and the Jack Black scene is worth the price of admission alone.

Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 5 / 10

Uh, can't they just cast REAL Irish people?! Still, Jack Black's presence saved it.

"The Day of the Jackal" was quite interesting, but the remake is basically another movie in which they release a criminal from jail so that he can catch the new bad guy. And I don't know why they couldn't just cast a real Irish person in Richard Gere's role. Granted, Richard Gere's a good actor (and as far as I've heard, a good guy), but he's not exactly one for accents. I would expect to see Bruce Willis in this kind of movie, but Sidney Poitier? That said, the movie's not a total waste. Jack Black plays the guy who "helps" Bruce Willis with the weapon. In those few minutes, he puts on a performance almost as crazy as his most famous ones. If nothing else, that would be the reason to see "The Jackal".

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