The Jackal - Collector's Edition
by Michael Caton-Jones
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Actor: Bruce Willis, Diane Venora, Richard Gere, Sidney PoitierDirector: Michael Caton-Jones
Brand: Universal Studios
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-04-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Product features:
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Movie Reviews of The Jackal - Collector's Edition
Movie Review: We need to go back to that international cooperation against crime
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the films of the mid-1990s when America had gotten out of its anti-Russian paranoia after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Russians and the Americans are working together against international terror-mongers. A real cocktail. The Russian mafia, slightly Georgian and Caucasian in those days (for the Americans, see Red Heat), the Basque separatist gone underground, the IRA getting little by little out of the closet and back on the political turf, and then the free-lance American adventurers who are doing it for the pleasure of killing in the most visible and gross way possible. But we have to note there is a traitor in the team and the traitor is a Russian of course. The Russians have never been totally redeemed. And now the Georgian mafia has gone back to Georgia and is manipulating the American-trained president, they are less redeemed than ever, though of course the means are scarce in the USA with the new financial crisis and its bailout to find money to support any kind of military adventure or caper anywhere in the world, not even Tibet, not Even Georgia, certainly not Ukraine, especially since the European president proposed in New York at the United Nations General Assembly to re-open negotiations with the Russians at a higher level than those that were frozen because of the Georgian American-trained and American-armed imbroglio. It is true that the tunnel from the Russian Federation to Georgia, dug out some 15 years ago or so became very handy indeed. So this film enabled us in 1997 to see the Irish IRA, the Basque ETA, the American FBI, the Russian SRV (or FSB) and a few others I guess save the day, cut short the plan to kill the First Lady, and finally got rid of this American Jackal. Unluckily things changed later for the worse and luckily we can hope things are going to change again and this time for the better. When the Americans discover after the financial crisis and its bailout what proportion of the banking system of the USA has been bought up directly or indirectly by the Chinese, the Russians, the Europeans, the various oil funds from the Middle East or from Northern Europe, or whatever, then they might finally realize they have to work with the rest of the world against plain criminals, or criminal terrorists if you want, and not send troops everywhere and imprecations against anyone. It is just the film we need to start understanding the world has really changed but the West in general and the USA in particular have NOT followed that change and have embarked on a revival of the old days. That started eight years ago and the "formerly"-CIA financed Ben Laden had enough know-how and connections to invest his own plans into some maneuvers that smelled like good old cold war tactics and manipulations. The actors are great, the suspense is quite well organized though of course we can know what is going to happen always a couple of second ahead of time. That's good for our egos, and we all have at least three egos according to Jacques Lacan, the Ego, the Superego and the Id. Entertaining enough for an averagely long evening.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Summary of The Jackal - Collector's Edition
DVDThe 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 cannon-sized gun that's anything but inconspicuous) may be the first lady of the United States. Gere plays a former IRA terrorist who is recruited by the deputy head of the FBI (Sidney Poitier) to trace the Jackal's maneuvers, and Diane Venora offers some gutsy support as a Russian-born agent who assists Gere on his mission. The movie has fun turning Willis into a master of disguise, and Gere adds much-needed gravity to counter the plot's escalating absurdity, but this is the kind of film that falls apart if you think about it too much. Still, that doesn't stop the Collector's Edition DVD from offering an impressive array of bonus features, including a director's commentary, a "making of The Jackal" documentary, deleted scenes, an alternative ending, cast interviews, and more. --Jeff Shannon
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