Impressive, chilling and just a little bit silly: this update of Frederick Forsyth’s classic about a ruthless killing machine makes for highly enjoyable, trigger-happy viewing
or the first few minutes of The Day of the Jackal, you wonder why they have bothered to pay the Oscar winnerat all. He is so well disguised as an older German man that it could be anybody buried under all those prosthetics. Yet soon enough, after much prancing around an office building – where he shoots anyone who gets in the way – we are finally treated to the unboxing of Redmayne, as he peels away the mask, the wig, the makeup and the contact lenses.
We first meet the Jackal in Munich, where he has been hired to take out a divisive populist politician, an act that has potentially international ramifications. The case attracts the interest of British intelligence, in particular Lashana Lynch’s Bianca, a gun expert with a hunch about this new supersniper. “Snipers are my patch,” she says, as she muscles in on the investigation. This whole show is a gun-lover’s paradise, as characters salivate over firearms models, innovations and techniques.
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