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Jackal, The (1997) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Jackal, The (1997) a score of 2.5298 out of 4

based on (81) reviews

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Excellent

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(52)

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(20)

Fair

(6)

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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)

The Jackal, the new espionage thriller with Bruce Willis and Richard Gere, offers the best of two cinematic worlds -- the old-fashioned cerebral plotting of the original 1973Day of the Jackaland the stylized and highly visceral...read the complete Jackal, The (1997) review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)

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DVD Authority.com (Al Barnes)

In my reviews I usually extol the virtues of 5.1 Digital Dolby and rightly so, but its time to raise the bar a notch and enter the realm of DTS, a world of sound never before achieved in "Home Theater". But first let's talk about the movie The Jackal...a...read the complete Jackal, The (1997) review at DVD Authority.com (Al Barnes)

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Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)

In the old ending, she makes the typical movie mistake of thinking the bad guy's dead and she runs to Gere, relinquishing her gun and her power. She then requires him to provide her safety, and he does, with her collapsed on him protectively. In...read the complete Jackal, The (1997) review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)

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DVD Talk (Aaron Beierle)

The "Collector's Edition" offers more extras including a commentary, but a bad film remains a bad film. The DTS audio provides a very strong presentation for the film's few intense sequences, but either way, I still don't care for the movie. Not...read the complete Jackal, The (1997) review at DVD Talk (Aaron Beierle)