The Day of the Jackal

This takes place in 1962 France with General Charles de Gaulle.

OAS, a group of extremists, wanting to kill General de Gaulle for freeing Algeria, granting them independence.

One of the OAS' attempts at assassination fails and all who were caught, are tried and found guilty, sentenced to death.

The surviving members realize they need to hire an outside guy for the job, not someone from France but a foreigner. 

So they hire ‘the jackal’ to do the deed for half a million dollars. He seems to be from Britain but they are never sure.

It was interesting to follow where he goes and how he goes about preparing to do the deed as this movie seems to be mostly about how the guy prepares and scouts the area where he is thinking of doing it.

The government hires their best detective to find the jackal and then the subsequent detective work of the detective trying to figure out who he is and where is at takes on half of the movie.

This movie is a bit slow but interesting how much the jackal puts into the preparation and becomes more of a just missed by minutes type of movie that starts to bring you to the edge of your seat.

All of their accents seem a bit off and there is some sexual situations and nudity. 

I enjoyed the movie as it was intriguing. 

A bit more about Charles de Gaulle on Wikipedia:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle

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