The Jackal 1997 123movies

Watch: The Jackal 1997 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
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Ratings:

	6.4/10 Votes: 118,105
	25% | RottenTomatoes
	36/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1564 Popularity: 16.664 | TMDB

Reviews:

A mixed bag of good and weak points.
As a re-make of “The Day of The Jackal” this movie succeeds in updating the setting without completely destroying the character. As so many re-makes tend to do. Here we find the historical and geo-political context totally changed but there is successfully conveyed the sense of an urgent hunt for one dangerous, faceless force of doom.

The technical aspects are among the best features. The cannon is for me the true star of the movie. Willis’s multiple identities make for the other star feature. Also his portrayal of the psychopath’s obsessional attention to detail and determination to make his lethal “toy” fulfil it’s dreadful promise. Check out that look in his eyes in the climactic park scene as he wiggles his “joy” stick.

These things allowed, there is one blundering and grossly offensive feature. Gere’s character could have been any terrorist from an imaginary outfit or assassin or foreign agent, who happened to know about the “Jackal”. Why make him a “hero” out of the IRA? This is yet another manifestation of Hollywood’s liberal mind-set dabbling in things of which they have not the glimmering of an understanding. As a UK citizen I have seen plenty of IRA and UDA thugs dragged out into the daylight. Fat tattooed men with twisted faces, scruffy facial hair and mullet hair-cuts. There never was one who could by the remotest stretch of the imagination be likened to a suave sex-bomb like Richard Gere. When one of the FBI agents suggests that his “war” took the lives of women and children rather than “British” soldiers he declares that he never got involved in such things. That is a statement every bit as ridiculous as if it were uttered by one of Osama Bin Laden’s lieutenants! Can you imagine Richard Gere at a meeting planning the Manchester city centre bombing, saying to his “colleagues” “Aw, I’m sorry, I ‘ll have to sit it out on this one, chaps, this isn’t my way of fighting a war.” And, incidentally, Ulster has been a constitutional part of the British Isles for five hundred years ( twice as long as the U.S.A has existed ). Please note, Hollywood, the Northern Irish ARE British. Moreover, the use of the expression “British” to refer to the English ( which would have been what he meant ) is a uniquely American error.

There are also numerous “howlers” in the story. For example, if destroying the plans is so important to the assassin, why does he go off and leave them laying about to be discovered? When the gangster falls dead in the car-park, what happens to the body? Where did Gere’s pistol come from in the final scenes? Why did the Jackal wait for the FBI to arrive before opening fire on the intended victim? Why, when they knew who it was and that he was there, did they not simply postpone the opening? Why were there no police or security arriving in the Metro station ( apart from the one killed )?

These things aside, a good set of cliff-hangers and one excellent and novel twist, a play on our assumptions, at the end.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 4 min (124 min)
Budget 60000000
Revenue 159330280
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
Director Michael Caton-Jones
Writer Kenneth Ross, Chuck Pfarrer
Actors Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier
Country United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan
Awards 1 win & 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, DTS-Stereo
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color), Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK (film processing)
Film Length 3,419 m (Sweden), 3,465 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm