while the jackal [ remake of the excellent day of the jackal ] have good esthetic [ and a boatload budget ] and this film nail the actual persona of carlos down . quinn excels a the naval officer enlist to impersonate the wiley jackal to draw him out of hiding and and at the hand of kingsley and sutherland and turn himself inside out to do so . risk his family and his career and all that he believe in and he take on the task and albeit utterly unwillingly . to say more would spoil it . this be an excellent film . 3 half niro~stars [ of 4 ] .