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Rated: R; Length: 112 Minutes; Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Suspense; With: Richard Gere and Bruce Willis
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Bruce Willis plays an ice-blooded assassin who's a master of disguise. We rarely feel, though, that he's donning his hairpieces and costumes because of the situations he's in. Rather, the film seems to have dropped him into the situations mostly so that he can wear the hairpieces. 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. Apart from his wigs, the Jackal really has no identity at all, and neither does the movie.
Posted Nov 28, 1997
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