The Day of the Jackal Comments

  • Troy 2022-08-21 09:54:42

    I feel that the filming is not very powerful, the rhythm is slow, and the plot has many loopholes. It sounds pretty cool, the story of the assassination of de Gaulle by a professional killer in the early days of the Fifth...

  • Lexie 2022-08-20 20:25:34

    This production, this lineup, is not worthy of the classic original. Forsyth's novels are probably difficult to shoot well, too meticulous and exquisite details, without which there is no...

  • Providenci 2022-08-19 11:31:31

    Documentary style, and finally a real military parade. The Liberation Day scenes were filmed at a real parade, with most spectators being unaware of a film being...

  • Rylee 2022-08-19 10:15:26

    The pace is too slow, I don't like...

  • Ronny 2022-08-05 21:24:11

    I've seen the best film adapted from a novel recently. Calm, elegant and compact. One of the essence of Forsyth is a large number of trivial but necessary metaphysical details, which is quite...

  • Samson 2022-08-05 21:11:49

    A very detailed description of the preparation process for the assassination, the male protagonist is really a master in disguise, quick-minded! Edward's acting is really good, and the picture photography is also...

  • Florian 2022-08-05 15:55:24

    Clean and neat, calm like a British killer, not long-winded, not sentimental, versatile, meticulous, meticulous, professional talents are also rare; but with so much foreshadowing, the final ending seems too...

  • Virgil 2022-08-05 12:47:00

    It has been a long time since I have such a simple and sophisticated performance method. In today's impetuous fast food culture, the old films are more ingenuity. The script is superb, the editing is sharp, there is not a waste of mirrors, the whole process is not rendered by the soundtrack, but the rhythm is very tight, and the emotions are always guided. The pinch where the scissors should fall is extremely precise, and this is the top subtraction in artistic...

  • Ken 2022-08-05 12:12:48

    After reading it for a month, I finished it... There is no emotional color, and the shooting is as meticulous and refined as this manual, and the style is as handsome as the self-made simple silencer rifle. It is so gratifying that the beautiful figure of father fox has been inherited perfectly by his...

Extended Reading
  • Vincent 2022-08-05 23:28:04

    Luck is also part of strength

    It seems that in the West, "Jackal" is a nickname that is more familiar to bad guys. Whether it is a killer or a drug lord, they all like to call themselves jackals. This is an interesting phenomenon.

        I really like movies that describe the Cold War period. I don’t know why. It may be because...

  • Beaulah 2022-09-10 15:41:34

    I feel mocking the French

    1. At the beginning, the French chose to do it themselves. Several submachine guns burst together, and the leader was unscathed. According to the explanation of the voice-over, it belongs to God's favor, but the truth is that the killer is too stupid.
    2. Apparently French extremists also realized...

The Day of the Jackal quotes

  • Lebel: The time elapsed from the first to the last shot was 7 seconds. In all, more than 140 shots were fired. 7 bullets pierced the President's car, one coming within an inch of his head, but by a miracle, neither he or anyone else was hurt. Six months later, most of the conspirators had been caught and tried. Their leader, Col. Bastien-Thiry, has been sentenced to death. At the last moment, his lawyer applies one more time for a stay of execution.

    Lawyer: The appeal for clemency has been turned down. There is nothing more that I can do. I am sorry.

    Bastien-Thiry: There is no need.

    Lawyer: For heaven's sake, man, don't you realize that you are going to be shot?

    Bastien-Thiry: You don't understand. No French soldier is going to raise a rifle against me.

  • Denise: Crisis?... .What crisis?

The Day of the Jackal

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Language: English,Italian,French Release date: July 30, 1973