The Jackal (1997)

An update of THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, this spy thriller offers a seasoned FBI man, a rigid Russian agent, and a black-sheep I.R.A. terrorist teaming up to stop a nasty and extremely well-paid assassin from offing a U.S. official. A winning thriller from director Michael Caton-Jones.

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In this involving political thriller, a secret French paramilitary organization plans to assassinate French President Charles De Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand) because of their disagreement with his policies during the Algerian War. They hire a professional killer, known only as "The Jackal" (Edward Fox). The police learn of the plot from an informer, and police investigator Lebel (Michel Lonsdale) cleverly pieces together the clues to the Jackal's identity. The complicated plot uses parallel editing to cross-cut between the details of the Jackal's preparations for the assassination and Lebel's efforts to find him...
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before it is too late. Fred Zinnemann presents the story, faithfully adapted from the book by Frederick Forsyth, with precise, dramatic flair. Edward Fox is coldly alluring as the Jackal. Well acted and directed, Day of the Jackal is a tense and engrossing political thriller with a surprising ending.
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The Jackal (Bruce Willis) is een mysterieuze huurmoordenaar die door de Russische maffia wordt ingeschakeld om in een wraakactie de directeur van de FBI om te brengen. De FBI krijgt hier lucht van en ziet zich genoodzaakt de hulp in te roepen van gevangen IRA-terrorist Declan Mulqueen (Richard Gere), de enige die The Jackal kan identificeren. Remake van The day of the Jackal (1973).

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