The Jackal - Collector's Edition
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Movie Reviews of The Jackal - Collector's Edition
Movie Review: no where as good as the origanal but still fun if you let it
Summary: 4 Stars
bruce willis and richard gere plus sidney poitior in the story of an hit-man out to kill someone in the u.s. and we don't know who. russiaian mob men are looking for payback after u.s. and russian police kill one of the mobs boys in russia. they hire the "jackel" a hit-man who no one has ever seen and ask him to do the job. willis is the killer and he looks mean and enjoys killing. gere is an i.r.a. killer in jail who also has seen the "jackel" and poitior is the f.b.i. man that is tracking the hit-man down. logic never gets in the way of the action as this movie pulls out all the stops to tell this story. i makes no sence at all but it is fun if you let it be. willis is ok , gere's accent slips as much as his acting and poitior is his fine acting self and he never lets his age keep him out of the action . not great but fun .Movie Review: See the great 1970's Day Of The Jackal instead
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is not a thriller or thrilling like the 1970's Day Of The Jackal. It's mostly dumb action pre-teen boy stuff with little suspense or interesting plot. Movie Review: Make It Charlie Eh?
Summary: 5 Stars
One of my most watched DVDs. This movie is ingenious. The mix of sarcastic/subtle humor and action is what keeps drawing me going back every few months to watch it again. Maybe it's the cool soundtrack or the over the top but hilariously timed choreography. The director knew what he was doing. Those that get it will love the movie and watch it again and again. Those that compare it too the original or get their meat torqued over anything they think is implausable or those that consider themsleves too 'sophisticated' are better off staying away. This is a great movie. I like it in a similiar way as I do The Saint with Val Kilmer. It would appear that unless a movie has a 80 pound woman with a large cranium skilled in martial arts or a gay cowboy or a rapper turned actor, it will be looked down upon over an upturned nose.Movie Review: Hollywood hardup for a new story so they ruin an old one
Summary: 1 Stars
This is just a piece of ***
Hollywood has shown here that they just have no new ideas/stories so they continue to try and use special effects and a bad scriptwriters to remake what was and still is one of the best movies ever.
This is not the first Hollywood remake that is garbage and will not be the last but as long as there are people willing to part with good money to watch movies it won't change.
This is a good reason why Blockbuster have lost sales recently - nothing worth watching
Movie Review: Keystone FBI and Assassin meet master IRA "I was never a" bomber
Summary: 1 Stars
Master assassin sets up hopelessly convoluted plan to get into the US and assassinate the First Lady while master IRA soldier, who proclaims, emotionally "I was never a bomber!!" gives the FBI and the US Military its marching orders in the hunt for the bad guy.
One might think it would require a convoluted plan to do this, what with the skills of the Secret Service and the military in defending our Presidential family, right? Wrong.
First, the assassin is already in the US, so why not just drive his car over to the kill zone to do the job.
Second, apparently, the Secret Service doesn't bother to secure a location outside of 100 yards, where Bruce Willis' huge mega-gun is set up. Why he needed that monstrosity when an average deer rifle would have worked just as well is beyond me. And can someone tell me how Sidney Poitier could possibly be the guy covering the the First lady when the bullets start flying instead of her cadre of Secret Service officers makes no sense.
What about the boat? Why all the ID's and country hopping, when you have a mini-van already waiting for you in the States. Why not just drive in, or ride in on a bus? Or, for pete's sake, why not just stay in the US to begin with and drive over to the local shopping mall where the First Lady was giving her speech and shoot her and walk away. Remember, the security was so non-existent that you were able to shoot off two hundred thousand rounds of ammo and no one, not one person, except the Irish terrorist, even looked in your direction as you walked to the subway.
And since when did the FBI need a terrorist, apparently skilled in assassin psychology and behavior as well as suicide bombing, to explain to them that if you move the First Lady off the stage the master assassin will start blasting the crowd. One would think that, if they hustled the target away, the master assassin would simply abort the mission, as he threatened to do numerous times if the slightest problem occurred. The master assassin is now attributed with the psychology of your average McDonald's mass killer, spraying bullets in every direction?
Why does being shot by the master assassin a dozen years ago qualify Richard Gere to know the man's psychology inside and out. If Gere is who he says, a soldier and not a killer, then would he understand what motivates Willis' character at all?
Jack Black. The savant technical genius who invents the vehicle-sized mega weapon but who, as another reviewer said, couldn't order a burger for himself at White Castle. Does this guy exist in the real world?
The End: why does the dispassionate, master assassin, when he has the drop on Gere, not just shoot him? Why does he degenerate from skilled professional killer to spur-of-moment bank robber type when he takes a hostage in the subway? Why hasn't one of perhaps ten thousand law-enforcement types in the Washington DC area shown up in the subway after 10 solid minutes of shooting, chasing, and hostage taking?