The Day of the Jackal (1973)

May 03, 2008 22:35




Man. I'm kicking myself. I could have sworn that I took screencaps for The Day of the Jackal but cannot find them anywhere on my hard drive. It's too bad, because while I wasn't all that interested in this movie, particularly as a thriller, I thought it had some intentionally bizarre imagery. Most of what I remember involved juxtaposing erotic imagery with the assassin's murder victims (usually also his lovers). Cool, if you're into the whole symbolic scenery thing. Also, the final sequence has one slick shot and one totally ridiculous piece of action, which would be ruined if I went more into depth. It's not a bad movie, it has a great methodical cat-and-mouse game, I just otherwise couldn't really get into it. In a strange way it feels like a follow-up/spiritual successor to Battle of Algiers, only more contrived and dated (some of "The Jackal's" wardrobe is rather laughable). As a whole, definitely better than the Bruce Willis remake, though.

(Hey, remember when Jack Black gets dismembered by Willis in the remake? Totally awesome in the "holy crap, that was Jack Black!" sort of way.)
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