The Jackal, like most expensive thrillers nowadays, knows how to do gadgets, pyrotechnics, underground subway chases and panicked crowd scenes. But except for Mr. Gere's uphill battle, it has only the vaguest idea of how to do people.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
A trashy, frenetic remake of Fred Zinnemann's 1973 The Day of the Jackal, The Jackal is mired in blood, cheap shocks, and a random network of improbability.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
To enjoy it, however, you have to do the mental equivalent of squinting your eyes, so the credibility is only fuzzily ridiculous.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Actually, the more distance the studio places between the two films, the better, because the 1997 production can't hold a candle to the 1973 release, and an attempted comparison only makes the new Bruce Willis/Richard Gere vehicle look worse.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
The Jackal is based on a fabrication so absurd that it almost made me laugh out loud.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The Jackal, on the other hand, impressed me with its absurdity. There was scarcely a second I could take seriously.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Sporadically effective, it appears not to have particularly excited the people who made it, and that lackadaisical quality is a drawback.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
Michael Caton-Jones' pompous and coarsely stupid inflation of what remains a superior thriller, Fred Zinnemann's The Day of the Jackal (1973).Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
The usually reliable director Michael Caton-Jones hasn't a clue how to freshen up such stale material.Read Full Review »
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