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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

The Jackal
1997
**
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora, Tess Harper

Americans and Russians join forces and recruit an ex-IRA terrorist to catch a top-notch assassin in this run-of-the-mill thriller remake. Bruce Willis gives another wooden performance and Richard Gere struggles to maintain his Irish accent. The original The Day of the Jackal was no masterpiece either, but it at least provided a believable political context to the story.