
How do you stop an assassin who has no identity?
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.
- 6.4
- 1997
- Released
- 2h 4m

Bruce Willis
The Jackal
Richard Gere
Declan Mulqueen
Sidney Poitier
Carter Preston
Diane Venora
Major Valentina Koslova
J.K. Simmons
FBI Agent T. I. Witherspoon
Mathilda May
Isabella Zanconia
John Cunningham
FBI Director Donald Brown
Jack Black
Ian Lamont
Stephen Spinella
Douglas
Tess Harper
The First Lady
David Hayman
Terek Murad
Ravil Isyanov
Ghazzi Murad
Maggie Castle
Maggie
Richard Lineback
FBI Agent McMurphy
Karen Kirschenbauer
Speaker
Daniel Dae Kim
Akashi
Serge Houde
Beaufres
Leslie Phillips
Woolburton
Steve Bassett
George Decker
Jonathan Aris
Alexander Radzinski
Richard Cubison
General Belinko
Bob Kingdom
Ambassador Koldin
Peter Sullivan
Vasilov
John Harrington Bland
Dave
Terry Loughlin
Davis
Walt MacPherson
Dennehey
Jim Grimshaw
Green Beret Colonel
Terrence Currier
Surgeon General
Sophie Okonedo
Jamaican Girl
Gregory Porter Miller
Paramedic
Murphy Guyer
NSC Representative
Philip LeMaistre
Bored Teenage Clerk
James McCauley
CIA Representative #1
Victor Sobchak
Doctor
Serge Christianssens
Immigration Officer
Boris Boscovic
Interrogator
Ewan Bailey
Prison Guard
Danette Alberico
Woman with Champagne #1
Debra Gano
Woman with Champagne #2
Pamela Poitier
Law Clerk
Eddie Bo Smith Jr.
Washington Cop
Dan Ziskie
CIA Representative #2
Gayle Jessup
Reporter
Bill Collins
Medic
David Gene Gibbs
Pilot
James M. Helkey
Co-Pilot
Larry King
Himself
Yuri Stepanov
Victor Politovsky



Released
en
$60,000,000.00
$159,300,000.00
- #showdown
- #hitman
- #politics
- #bratva (russian mafia)
- #cold war
- #fbi
- #montreal, canada
- #revenge
- #terrorism
- #ira (irish republican army)
- #pretending to be gay
Reviews

The Jackal is the kind of Thriller that does everything by the book. Most of the movie is comprised out of well-known and established tropes, it's got a packed cast and decent action scenes. It may not reinvent the wheel or keep you on your toes, but it does offer some solid 90's entertainment for about two hours.

This is one I've seen several times over the years and while certainly not great and it is funny hearing Richard Gere with an Irish accent and the numerous hair changes with Bruce Willis, I still find it watchable and somewhat entertaining. That said, how the Jackal was written was a problem because while for most of the movie he's a cold-blooded and calculating character, his actions of going

Globetrotting pursuit of a master-of-disguise assassin RELEASED IN 1997 and directed by Michael Caton-Jones, "The Jackal” is an international crime thriller about a joint FBI/MVD mission (led by Sidney Poitier and Diane Venora) that enlists the aid of an imprisoned IRA combatant (Richard Gere) to stop a brutal master-of-disguise assassin known as The Jackal (Bruce Willis) from completing a big











