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The Jackal Review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 2.0
    36

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally unfavorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 30

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    Sporadically effective, it appears not to have particularly excited the people who made it, and that lackadaisical quality is a drawback.

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  • 38

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    The Jackal, on the other hand, impressed me with its absurdity. There was scarcely a second I could take seriously.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    The Jackal, like most expensive thrillers nowadays, knows how to do gadgets, pyrotechnics, underground subway chases and panicked crowd scenes. But except for Mr. Gere's uphill battle, it has only the vaguest idea of how to do people.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    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.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    Actually, the more distance the studio places between the two films, the better, because the 1997 production can't hold a candle to the 1973 release, and an attempted comparison only makes the new Bruce Willis/Richard Gere vehicle look worse.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Variety Todd McCarthy

    With its strong premise, a couple of fine performances and highly polished tooling, The Jackal scores as an involving high-tech thriller that occasionally hits peaks of pulsating excitement.

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