Word: jackal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Director Michael Caton-Jones presents a confused jumble of bad accents, loud music, stale techno-babble and Richard Gere in a lifeless remake of the 1973 hit The Day of the Jackal. Traveling by minivan and rotating hair colors faster than Dennis Rodman, the Jackal (Bruce Willis) stalks a mystery target while the FBI scrambles to catch up with him, using the expertise of Gere's former IRA terrorist Declan Mulqueen. When Mulqueen and the Jackal finally meet, sparks fly and a gay kiss occurs. OK, not really, but it sure would have made this dopey flick a lot more...
...Smile of the Jackal Smooth, suave Carlos the Jackal is going down. But with a smile...
...neither his legendary charm nor France?s lingering nostalgia for revolutionary leftism will give Carlos the Jackal much sympathy, says TIME's Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley: "Rather than representing any single cause, he was a roving terrorist who put his deadly skills up for hire...
...Born Illich Ramirez Sanchez in Venezuela in 1949, the man later known as Carlos the Jackal was a red-diaper baby ? hence Illich, Lenin?s middle name ? sent by his wealthy communist parents to university in Moscow...
...self-styled "professional revolutionary," Carlos managed to evade Western security services for 21 years. The Jackal (so named by a journalist who found a copy of Frederick Forsyth's "Day of the Jackal" in his abandoned bag) is alleged to have committed at least 20 spectacular terrorist attacks ? and caused more than 80 deaths...