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A Balasaur Score of 50 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.4/10, Rotten Tomatoes 24%, Metacritic 36/100. Audiences rate it 28 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes24%
Metacritic36/100
Audiences rate it 28 points higher than critics do.
2,204 audience votes
Key crew
- Michael Caton-JonesDirector
- Chuck PfarrerScreenplay
- Carter BurwellOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Bruce WillisThe Jackal
- Richard GereDeclan Mulqueen
- Sidney PoitierCarter Preston
- Diane VenoraMajor Valentina Koslova
- J.K. SimmonsFBI Agent T. I. Witherspoon
- Mathilda MayIsabella Zanconia
- John CunninghamFBI Director Donald Brown
- Jack BlackIan Lamont
- Stephen SpinellaDouglas
- Tess HarperThe First Lady
- David HaymanTerek Murad
- Ravil IsyanovGhazzi Murad
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Themes
showdownhitmanpoliticsbratva (russian mafia)cold warfbimontreal, canadarevengeterrorismira (irish republican army)political thrillerpretending to be gay