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Day of the Jackal
A British professional assassin codenamed 'Jackal' employed by disgruntled French generals to kill Charles de Gaulle while a dedicated gendarme follows the assassin's trail.
February 19, 1911 in Alexandria, Egypt
6 January 1940, Shanghai, China
9 October 1923, Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
25 September 1934, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
October 20, 1914 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France
29 June 1901, Paris, France
2 March 1915, Paris, France
20 August 1916, Fulham, London, England, UK
3 April 1931, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
10 January 1933, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
May 24, 2003
[A] taut, slow-burning thriller.
May 20, 2003
The details are minutely observed and, to me, just a bit boring.
November 01, 2007
It's a polished and exciting thriller, mercifully unburdened with heavy political/philosophical digressions.
January 05, 2005
Great assassination-based thriller
January 26, 2006
Low on documentary conviction and political context, but an intriguing exercise in concealing the obvious.
June 13, 2004
An engrossing film about a terrorist.
November 01, 2007
A taut, suspenseful, and fascinating political thriller.
September 11, 2003
A taut, suspenseful thriller that is as exciting as the first time you saw it. Fox is wonderful as the assassin; a great cat-and-mouse feature.
October 23, 2004
I wasn't prepared for how good it really is: it's not just a suspense classic, but a beautifully executed example of filmmaking.
June 29, 2003
Delightfully intelligent and often irreverant, it's a good yarn and a good thriller to boot.
April 23, 2007
Like all Zinnemann's work, this meticulously crafted political thriller is involving but not exciting due to his detached perspective and the fact that we know the outcome, that De Gaulle wasn't assassinated, but it's cast with Europe's best actors.
November 01, 2007
The major asset of the film is that it succeeds in maintaining interest and suspense despite obvious viewer foreknowledge of the outcome.
