The Jackal

Review Date: May 20, 1999

Rating:

This role was a slight departure for Bruce, in that he plays the bad guy. His character in this movie is a master of disguise, an efficient and ruthless killer. Bruce is made no less masculine by the fact that his character in this movie feigns homosexuality in one scene, and the movie is made no less kick-ass by the presence of Richard Gere.

This is a very exciting movie. Bruce's character is a highly paid, impossible-to-catch assassin who is hired, the FBI thinks, to kill the Secretary of State. Richard Gere is an IRA terrorist currently in prison in the U.S. who helps the investigation because a) he's actually seen this ghost, and b) he's got a score to settle with him. Sidney Poitier plays the FBI agent in charge of the manhunt.