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By Chuck O'leary (376) for Fantastica Daily (363) on 25 Jan 2006

A fast-paced, underrated reworking of the often-sluggish Day of the Jackal. Willis is good as the villainous title character…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Dallas Observer (1,128) on 03 Mar 2004

The Jackal isn't much--it certainly isn't up to the 1973 Fred Zinnemann Day of the Jackal it loosely adapts and updates--but it does offer…

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By Lisa Alspector (408) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Feb 2004

Plotted densely enough to make the lulls forgivable, this movie concerns a contract killer (Bruce Willis) who employs several small-business…

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By Russell Smith (106) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 02 Jun 2003

This remake of Fred Zinnemann's well-regarded Day of the Jackal (1973) not only fails to match the modest entertainment value of Frederick…

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By David Ansen (1,073) for Newsweek (1,534) on 15 Apr 2003

The usually reliable director Michael Caton-Jones hasn't a clue how to freshen up such stale material…

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By Kim Newman (791) for Empire (3,446) on 21 Mar 2003

It's a good job this works so well as a machine-made movie, because its grasp of political realities is nebulous…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for The New York Times (9,847) on 01 Jan 2002

The Jackal, like most expensive thrillers nowadays, knows how to do gadgets, pyrotechnics, underground subway chases and panicked crowd scenes…

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By Barbara Shulgasser (553) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 07 Apr 2001

What keeps coming to mind throughout The Jackal is that for what it cost to make this movie you could probably pay some nice hit man to eliminate…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 26 Nov 1999

Though consistently handsome, the film never quite achieves the shallow but hugely seductive intensity of its MTV-style opening credits sequence…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 01 Oct 1998

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…

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