Movie review — The Day of the Jackal

I love watching old classics. They bring you back in time and let you enjoy sights that no amount of money can buy you today. Streets of Genoa from the 60s for instance!

Fred Zinnemann had a tough task on hand. Movies based on books are doubly difficult because you are competing not just with other movies released around that time, or your own past hits, but also with the book itself! Comparisons are always made and it is easy to say the book was a lot better. The Bond franchise never had that problem partly because many of the movies barely used material other than…