During a joint FBI/MVD sting, Major Valentina Kozlova (Diane Venora) of the Russian MVD (Ministry for Internal Affairs) shoots and kills mobster Ghazzi Murad (Ravil Isyanov). To retaliate, Murad's brother Terek (David Hayman) hires a shadowy international assassin known only as the 'Jackal' (Bruce Willis) to kill FBI Director Donald Brown (John Cunningham). Meanwhile, FBI deputy director Carter Preston (Sidney Poitier) and an imprisoned IRA sniper/terrorist Declan Mulqueen (Richard Gere), the only one who has ever seen the Jackal, are charged with identifying and stopping him.

The Jackal is a loose remake of the 1973 film The Day of the Jackal, both of which are based on a 1971 novel, The Day of the Jackal, by English writer Frederick Forsyth. The novel was adapted by Scottish-American screenwriter Kenneth Ross for the 1973 film. American novelist/screenwriter Chuck Pfarrer loosely adapted Ross' screenplay for The Jackal.

$70 million (US). In The Day of the Jackal, he only asked for $500,000 (US) to kill French president Charles de Gaulle.

No definitive answer is given in the movie. Viewers have suggested several reasons, such as (1) Lamont got greedy, asking for $100,000 beyond the agreed-upon price of $40,000 and, in all likelihood, would have continued to blackmail the Jackal for more money in the future, (2) Lamont delivered a less-than-perfect weapon (the sighting range was off by 3 millimeters), (3) once he shot off Lamont's arm, the Jackal had to tie up the loose end, (4) Lamont was just plain annoying, and (5) the Jackal basically took out everybody who could become a threat to his identity.

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