The Day Of The Jackal: Thrills, Twists, and a Series Worth Watching....

The day of the Jackal is a series that reimagines Frederick Forsyth's political thriller novel, delivered through an intricate narrative and painstaking attention to details.

At first, I lost interest in the series upon seeing an older actor portraying the character, I suspected that was a show-off moment, especially since the real person was shown dead even before he went on the mission but seeing him take off the mask and it was a young man not only rekindled my spirit but also gave me an impression this series would be a wonderful and captivating one.

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Eddie Redmayne starring as The Jackal was in the top league of the assassins. He was contacted to finish up the assassination of Ulle Dag Charles, a man with visionary dream of releasing River, an application software that threatens to expose the global elite's financial secrets bringing about financial transparency, making him a target of elimination.

After a successful operation when Jackal was expecting them to complete his payment, they were busy trying to tighten their loose ends and make sure they were the only ones who knew about the assassination, so he was not currently faced with getting his paycheck but rather faced with surviving the bunch of assassins sent his way.
His ability to switch identities professionally leaving no room to chance makes him a deadly assassin.

At a point, the Jackal paused to say, "You are indeed an artist, Norman Stoke" and this was no exaggeration.
The creativity Norman had to put into designing the weapon to fit any shape (a bag, a fracture boot) and go undetected at checkpoints was one I have never seen before now.

Bianca, on her end is a dogged and resilient law enforcement agent who was captivated to know who this assassin was by the distance and precision with which he delivers. She was determined to give up everything just to get closer to catching this guy.

Imagine arresting someone's daughter unlawfully to scare the person into talking and still playing the card of releasing the daughter even when the daughter was dead; that's surely some cold sacrifice to make.

The inclusion of Spanish dialogues interswitch makes it more interesting or maybe I just love the language, hehe.
The song collections were something that is worth commenting on again... They were so cool and soothing to the ear and was very appropriate for the scenes were they were used.

The movie is still unravelling with hints about the Jackal's past. His recurring dreams of where he was in the military uniform in the dessert that looks like he went for a mission tells me we are yet to know who he was before picking up The Jackal as a name although episode 8 offered glimpses but I'm yet to fully uncover the man behind the name, Alexander Duggan.

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The responses, *"it was worth it" and "I kill for money" * that he his wife made him say also tells me he might have been a useful asset of the government before getting abandoned or deflecting.
Who exactly shall he be?

But for real, nothing is ever easy to pull through ... Imagine the mental work and the discomfort he puts himself to secure a shot at his final target and eventually having to finish up the work at another location... I've never rooted for an assassin to succeed like I did for him, lol.

The cat-and-mouse game between Bianca and the Jackal was one I didn't know will end this soon but I guess they have a lot in store for us.

It's surely a movie you will love to add to your watchlist

Thanks for reading and have a nice day 👍

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