Review of The Day of the Jackal (1973) by Tony P — 10 Feb 2013

A relaxing suspense film. It was interesting to see the planning of the assassination and the police investigation to find the assassin's identity up to a point which resulted a Deus Ex Machina : the scene at park how one investigator found the identity with the code name Jackal. At the end of the film, where the killer is in position for the assassination, it offered another Deus Ex Machina: the investigator meeting a policeman (of all policemen)the conversation was inaudible because of noise of crowd and fanfare. By facial gestures, the investigator got the location of the assassin.

This kind of writing results in a cheap suspense film.