Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the United States FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires "The Jackal" – an elusive, nasty assassin – to kill FBI Director Donald Brown. Present at the shooting of Murad's brother were FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian militia. Nearly no one has ever seen The Jackal, save for Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper. Upon learning that the Director Brown is a target, Preston and Koslova enlist the services of the reluctant Mulqueen to track down the Jackal before he can assassinate Brown.
In Moscow, the FBI and their Russian counterpart, the MVD, are working on a joint mission to apprehend Russian mobster Ghazzi Murad specifically for the murder of Mayor Nikolai Semankho. During the arrest, they are forced to kill Ghazzi. Ghazzi's brother, Terek Murad, also a mobster, begins his own form of deadly retribution against the MVD for Ghazzi's death. But the FBI and MVD also get wind that Terek has hired an assassin by the code name Jackal to carry out a hit on a high profile but unknown American target for the Americans sticking their nose in Russian affairs. Intelligence points to that target being Donald Brown, the Director of the FBI. The Jackal is known only by name and reputation but no one in authority knows who he is, what he looks like or if he even really exists. They learn of only one person alive who they know has had ties to the Jackal: former Basque separatist Isabella Zanconia, whose whereabouts are unknown. As such, the FBI and MVD decide to turn to the one person they know who has had ties to Isabella: Declan Mulqueen, who is currently in an American prison serving twenty-five years for his deadly IRA activities. To their surprise, Declan purports to have met the Jackal. Although they are unable to meet all his demands including not being able to guarantee his release and return back to Ireland after all is said and done, Declan agrees to help them on the promise that they will do their best to meet that request. What happens is largely a function of Declan's relationship with his two handlers, the MVD's Major Valentina Koslova and FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston, the latter in particular who does not fully trust Declan. It is also affected by the nature of the history between Declan, Isabella and the Jackal. Through it all, Declan may, if given the opportunity, do what Carter believes he will do, which is run without keeping to his side of the bargain.
This movie has the worst casting I have ever seen.<br/><br/>Richard Gere was totally wrong for the role of the Irishman. Why get Richard Gere to do a bad Irish accent when there are plenty of good actors who could both look and sound more convincing as an IRA terrorist? It just doesn&#39;t make sense.<br/><br/>Bruce Willis didn&#39;t seem threatening or scary in his role as the cold blooded assassin at all. He phoned this performance in.<br/><br/>Sidney Poitier, while undeniably a legend was totally out of place in this movie. His acting style is a little too old fashioned (almost stagy) for the modern feel of this remake. He would probably have fared better in the original &quot;Day of the Jackal.&quot; All in all, this movie seemed empty, boring and contrived due, in large part, to the totally inappropriate casting. I didn&#39;t feel like the actors were connected at all, either to the script or to each other. What a waste of time and a waste of actors who can do (and have done) much better work.
Take my advice, see Fred Zinnemann&#39;s excellent film version of the Fredric Forsyth novel about a professional killer and toss this version with Willis in the title role in the trash. It lacks tension and suspense all the way through.
Amusing performances – especially from Willis, who takes on a new personality with each new hairstyle – can't disguise the fact that the film is basically a pastiche of recent movies.
During a joint FBI/MVD sting, Major Valentina Kozlova (<a href="/name/nm0893204/">Diane Venora</a>) of the Russian MVD (Ministry for Internal Affairs) shoots and kills mobster Ghazzi Murad (<a href="/name/nm0411570/">Ravil Isyanov</a>). To retaliate, Murad&#39;s brother Terek (<a href="/name/nm0371342/">David Hayman</a>) hires a shadowy international assassin known only as the &#39;Jackal&#39; (<a href="/name/nm0000246/">Bruce Willis</a>) to kill FBI Director Donald Brown (<a href="/name/nm0192351/">John Cunningham</a>). Meanwhile, FBI deputy director Carter Preston (<a href="/name/nm0001627/">Sidney Poitier</a>) and an imprisoned IRA sniper/terrorist Declan Mulqueen (<a href="/name/nm0000152/">Richard Gere</a>), the only one who has ever seen the Jackal, are charged with identifying and stopping him. The Jackal is a loose remake of the 1973 film The Day of the Jackal, both of which are based on a 1971 novel, The Day of the Jackal, by English writer Frederick Forsyth. The novel was adapted by Scottish-American screenwriter Kenneth Ross for the 1973 film. American novelist/screenwriter Chuck Pfarrer loosely adapted Ross&#39; screenplay for The Jackal. $70 million (US). In The Day of the Jackal, he only asked for $500,000 (US) to kill French president Charles de Gaulle. No definitive answer is given in the movie. Viewers have suggested several reasons, such as (1) Lamont got greedy, asking for $100,000 beyond the agreed-upon price of $40,000 and, in all likelihood, would have continued to blackmail the Jackal for more money in the future, (2) Lamont delivered a less-than-perfect weapon (the sighting range was off by 3 millimeters), (3) once he shot off Lamont&#39;s arm, the Jackal had to tie up the loose end, (4) Lamont was just plain annoying, and (5) the Jackal basically took out everybody who could become a threat to his identity. After the Jackal fails to assassinate the First Lady (<a href="/name/nm0002128/">Tess Harper</a>), he makes a run for the Subway, changing his disguise along the way. Declan follows him. When the Jackal notices Declan getting closer to him, he leaps across the train tracks in front of the oncoming train and begins to run back down the tracks. Declan continues to follow until the two finally come face-to-face on the platform where the Jackal has shot a guard and taken a young girl hostage. To save the girl, Declan is forced to drop his gun and kneel. Just as the Jackal is about to shoot Declan, a shot is fired and the Jackal falls to the platform, a bullet in his neck. The Jackal&#39;s gun goes off, hitting Declan in the shoulder, and the camera pans to show Isabella (<a href="/name/nm0000528/">Mathilda May</a>) holding a gun. She goes to help Declan, who notices the dying Jackal slowly pulling a gun from his pocket. Declan grabs Isabella&#39;s gun and fires a dozen bullets into the Jackal, killing him. Days later, as Declan and Preston watch, a pine box is lowered in a grave, and Preston wonders whether they&#39;ll ever know who the Jackal really was. As Declan and Preston leave the cemetery, Preston apologizes for not being able to get Declan a pardon and reminds him of the key given to him by Isabella. In the final scene, Preston goes off to buy himself a coffee, leaving Declan to walk down the road in the opposite direction. It&#39;s called Superpredators by Massive Attack. The rest of the corresponding scenes to songs can be foundhere.
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