The Jackal - Collector's Edition
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Movie Review: Gere has an accent and Willis changes identitys, good
Summary: 4 Stars
a solid thriller with Willis as The Jackal and he is hiring to kill a man, Gere is the man in prison who knows The Jackal's evern move. good beginning with the club scene then goes into that famouse scene where the guy gets an axe in the back of the head and then it gets good with Willis switching faces and putting beards on. by the end we have an assassination attempt, a great chase threw the subway and a killer ending. Willis has never been better, Gere with a great Irish accent, Poitier always enjoyable.Movie Review: WOUAH ... !!! ...WHOU !!! ... FRIGHTENING & AWFUL !!!
Summary: 5 Stars
THIS GEORGEOUS MOVIE IS FABULOUS AND INTERPRETED WITH AN OTHER BETTER FASHION THAN THE REALITY TRUE STORY OF THE TRUE JACKAL WHO'S REALY EXISTED MANY YEARS AGO WHEN HE HAS RUN AFTER, PURSUED MANY POLITICALS THROUGHT THE WORLD ! NOW HE IS ENCLOSED AND HE MARRYED A WOMAN IN HIS PRISON ! WHERE ? I DON'KNOW BUT HE IS ALIVE SURE ! THIS MOVIE IS SO REALY DIFFERENT THAN THE ORIGINAL WITH A SPLENDID SLAYER WHO HAS NOT EMOTION WHEN HE KILL EVERY ENEMY WHO'S ACROSS FROM SIDE TO SIDE HIS ROAD WITCH HE TAKE AT ANY MOMENT BRUCE WILLIS IS A COLOSSAL ACTOR WHO'S ABLE TO CREATE MANY MANY FRIGHT WHEN HE WANT !!! ... BBBRRRRRR !!!!Movie Review: It's a terrific action flick! See it!
Summary: 5 Stars
There's a reason this movie is on TV all the time... it's great. A very good plot, excellent acting, a scary villain, a sympathetic protagonist and strong ending (I love those), make this a 5-star action movie choice! I enjoyed it very much.Movie Review: This Really IS a bad movie
Summary: 1 Stars
Okay, Bruce Willis is this master assassin who never leaves a trace. Right? When the gun maker he hires tries to keep his original blueprint, what does he do? He kills the guy. This leads the police to the victim's studio. Guess what they find there? That's right, the blueprints! And that's what helps them solve the crime he's planning to commit. Boy, this Jackal is a genius - isn't he? Later in the movie he crosses from Canada into the US by boat. Then he makes his getaway from the police using his van. Only one problem, he left the van in Canada (or did he somehow carry it on the boat?) It didn't seem like that big a boat. Well, you get the idea. The film asks you to believe your dealing with an evil genuis, too bad it was written by a dunce.Movie Review: A highly inferior remake
Summary: 2 Stars
In 1971, Frederick Forsyth thrilled readers the world over with "The Day of the Jackal," a highly detailed story of a mysterious assassin hired to kill French President Charles de Gaulle. Two years later, Fred Zinnemann directed an excellent film version of the novel, with Edward Fox as the Jackal and Michael Lonsdale as the French police detective trying to find him before it's too late.And now we have this.
Bruce Willis stars in "The Jackal" as an enigmatic gunman hired by the Russian mafia to kill the director of the FBI. (Why the head of the FBI and not someone Russian? The mafia chief says it will "send a message," as the FBI is cooperating with the Russian police, but that really doesn't make a whole lot of sense.) Trying to find him before the kill takes place are Sidney Poitier as the FBI deputy director, Diane Venora as a Russian police colonel, and Richard Gere (sporting an Irish accent) as an IRA terrorist who is sprung from prison to help in the search.
Willis tries to play the Jackal as a cold, calculating killer, but a lot of the time he just appears to be sleepwalking. Poitier gnashes his teeth and chews the scenery, but he really doesn't have a lot to do in this film, and he knows it. Venora is there simply to add a bridge between the Russians and Americans, and Gere -- I have no idea why he's in this movie to begin with. After all, the original novel and film did quite well without throwing a character like his into the mix. Why the filmmakers decided to start overhauling the story and add entirely new major characters is beyond me; perhaps they thought they were updating it somehow. Plot holes exist in abundance, as do a few utterly inexplicable scenes which feel like they have nothing to do with the rest of the film.
Now, if all this sounds like it doesn't have much to do with the 1973 film, let alone the novel, you're right. Both Forsyth and Zinnemann were reportedly extremely unhappy with this remake and asked that their names be removed from the credits. They also demanded that the film's title be changed from the original "The Day of the Jackal" to play down any connection with the 1973 film.
The best that can be said about "The Jackal" is that it's not a complete failure, as it maintains a reasonable level of suspense, but it simply cannot be compared to the 1973 film. Viewers are advised to skip this ill-advised remake and stick with the original.