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Especially hard for me to watch was the last scene of the President of France at the national parade, while a loan gunman seeks to change politics with a bullet.

The other, bigger problem with The Day of the Jackal is that its bookended by fits of surreal, almost pythonesque humor thats not comic relief (when its done well, comic relief never feels out of place, regardless of the setting; see The Exorcist III) because it occurs at the very beginning (the lea...

They want to hire him to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle after one failed attempt from their part, and the Jackal is more than willing to oblige; for the right price, of course.

The movie explores this in obvious ways like an inspector deciphering the Jackal code name, in subtle ways like the minute calibrations he makes to his rifle's sight scope and - most importantly - always entertainingly.

As the Jackal makes his various escapes (and as bodies pile up behind him), the film maintains a dual momentum as the Jackal moves closer to executing his plan and Lebel learns more about his adversary with each incident.

One of the things that's outstanding about this movie is that the two leads are unknown and one of them doesn't even look like a movie star but still the movie was an expensive production shot in international locations with considerably huge budget.

Based on true events (and a book written about them) that took place in the early 60s of France, a professional assassin that goes by the codename of 'Jackal' is hired by an underground French group the AOS after a number of botched attempts at assassinating the French President Charles De Gaull.

The Day of the Jackal + Plot After a failed assassination attempt on French President Charles de Gaulle, the OAS (Organisation of the Secret Army) realise they must turn to an outside source to get the job done.