Review of The Jackal (1997) by Baurushan J — 20 Oct 2011

This movie is so cold-blooded, so vile, so cruel, so dark souled, so nasty, so evil, so deadly, so thrilling that it literally gets you in deep but not in the bad way. If you want to see Bruce Willis a.

K.a. John McClane play a villain so evil like nothing seen before, here you are. Now I heard that this film is loosely a remake of the 1973 film called "The Day of the Jackal" and therefore I have never seen the original so I am just going to defend this a film in general.

In Moscow, the American FBI deputy director and a Russian MVD intelligence officer bring down a key figure in the Russian Mafia, they are threatened by the criminal's powerful brother who swears vengeance on the FBI and immediately hires a professionally nasty, deadly, villainous, cruel assassin named The Jackal played by John McClane himself to kill a leading American political figure Declan Mulqueen played by Richard Gere.

I mean seriously this guy is so evil he literally kills Jack Black. how cruel is that and the over 18 rating wasn't wrong this time! Anyway he puts on disguise after disguise making fake passports so that he can escape and go after Mulqueen.

In the end when The Jackal escapes into a subway after his weapon is disabled, The Jackal eventually has Mulqueen for his mercy but then he has Zanconia summoned and together they shoot the evil assassin dead.

A few days later, they bury The Jackal at an unmarked grave and Mulqueen tells Preston that he is going to pursue the mobsters that hired him in the first place and Preston sets him free to do it. Now this is what I like about this film.

It's dark as hell, it is a complex as hell thriller and I have never seen John McClane never be so evil in a movie before. That's why I award this film it's points. The Jackal gets a 8/10.

("Yippie Kay Yay Motherfucker!").