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THE JACKAL (1997) |
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MORGAN'S GRADE |
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A B C D F |
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| Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has ever seen, to kill some high-ranking person in the American government. With nowhere to run, FBI agent Deputy Director Carter Preston enlists the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track down the Jackal, for Declan is the only person who can postively identify him. |
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| Bruce Willis (The Jackal), Ricahrd Gere (Declan Mulqueen), Sidney Poitier (Carter Preston), Diane Verona (Valentina Koslova), Mathilda May (Isabella), J.K Simmons (Witherspoon), Richard Lineback (Donald Brown), Jack Black (Lamont), Tess Harper (The First Lady), Leslie Phillips (Woolburton), Stephen Spinella (Douglas), Sophie Okonedo (Jamaican Girl), Steve Bassett (George Decker), Yuri Stepanov (Politovsky), Walt MacPherson (Dennehey), Michael Caton-Jones (Man waving in Video), Larry King (Himself). |
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HOW DO YOU STOP AN ASSASSIN WHO HAS NO IDENTITY? |
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION |
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DIRECTOR: Michael Caton-Jones.
WRITERS: Chuck Pfarrer, Kenneth Ross and based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth (uncredited).
PRODUCERS: Michael Caton-Jones, Sean Daniel, James Jacks and Kevin Jarre.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Sean T. Stratton.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Terence A. Clegg, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn and Hal Lieberman.
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Carter Burwell.
DISTRIBUTOR: Universal Pictures. |
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FACTS |
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RELEASE DATE: November 14th, 1997 (USA)
BOX OFFICE OPENING: $15.1 million (USA)
BOX OFFICE RESULT: $54.9 million (USA)
WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $138.9 million
BUDGET: $60 million (USA)
SHOOTING DATES: August 1996 -- November 1996
- At age 81, just months before his death, Fred Zinnemann, director of the original Day of the Jackal, on which this film is based, fought with Universal to change the title of the film. He said the original had stood the test of time and did not want the remake to have the same title. |
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QUOTES |
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[After splitting an associate's head with an axe.]
Terek: I loved that man like a brother. So I took no joy in that. Imagine what I can do with someone I hate! |
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Declan: A man like this doesn't make mistakes.
Valentina: No? They always make one somewhere. Isn't that how you were caught.
Carter: Ouch. |
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CRITICAL COMMENTS |
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McMurphy: How did you know whose phone to tap?
Carter: I didn't. So I tapped everybody's. |
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| "Watchable globe-trotting thriller is weakened by lapses of credibility, but boosted by Gere's charismatic performance." -- Leonard Maltin |
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Carter: Witherspoon, you by-the-book asshole. |
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Carter: I wonder if we'll ever know who the hell he was.
Declan: We know all we need to. He was evil, he is dead. And he's gone. Nothing more matters. |
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| "The Jackal is a glum, curiously flat thriller...impressed me with its absurdity. There was scarcely a second that I could take seriously." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times |
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| "The Jackal starts strongly, but it doesn't take long for the film to devolve into a series of familiar formulas. And, without a sense of mounting tension or at lrast a few interesting characters, the movie's trajectory propels us to a realm of burgeoning boredom." -- James Berardinelli |
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"With three major male stars in fine form and Verona arguably stealing their thunder as a crusty scar-faced survivor, the movie should have had more juice." -- Mike Clark, USA Today |
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