The Day of the Jackal

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Andrei U @RT90280993 Jul 17 Spotless plotting and really sharp editing, but the acting felt a little too stiff, and the cinematography looked older than the movie itself. Some of those shadow-drenched scenes had me wondering if I was watching something from the '50s instead of the '70s. That said, the film never lets go of the tension. Even when you know exactly how it'll end, it still has you chewing your nails by the final minute. See more Glafira Regina O @Glafira_Regina Jul 2 The main actor is handsome, but the film is definitely too long and has too many plot holes. If not for the frankly slow-witted heroes and tedious scenes created for the sake of plot extension only, one would spend half the time in front of a screen See more Hector I @Hector1184BC Apr 10 n the post–Algerian War period, the remnants of the OAS, exiled and infiltrated by the DST, prepare a final assassination attempt against de Gaulle. The operation relies on a foreign hired killer acting alone, while only the OAS leadership coordinates it. The situation shifts when an interrogation reveals his codename: "the Jackal," triggering a race against time between an elusive assassin and the French state. Insp. Claude Lebel is assigned to the case. Discreet, methodical, and apolitical, he gradually takes control of the investigation. The inquiry reveals links between London and Paris via a cabinet-related contact, highlighting human intelligence networks. The manhunt and the assassination plot progress in parallel before converging. Even cornered, the Jackal repeatedly escapes and kills when necessary, sustaining a cold procedural chase where moral distinctions fade into pure power dynamics. My view: a tightly structured political thriller driven by pursuit and procedure. See more Sharon S. @collegepath1 Jan 10 It’s a classic and we even picked up on more points that were given a role in the remake with Eddy Redmayne See more Paul D @madmanfrommadtown Jan 5 It's 90 minutes of fairly basic "cat and mouse" type thing. That's all fine. But then in the end what happens is the detective can't catch the mouse and decides to just go to DeGaulle's speech... where he happens to see an open window and goes up and catches the assassin. So the whole movie was pretty much a joke on the audience. None of it mattered. They could have just posted look outs on the rooftops and saved everyone the trouble. It's like a murder mystery where they spend 90 minutes making you think "is it the butler? the lover?" and in the last scene, that the killer was just a random psychopath with no motive at all. See more Robert L. @bobdaboss Nov 14 Absolute cinema. Fred Zinnemann, you meticulous son of a gun. Had me locked in like I took a 30mg Adderall. Easily my favorite political thriller. Edward Fox was great. See more Read all reviews

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