Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill some high-ranking person in the American government. With nowhere to turn, FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston enlists the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only person who can positively identify the Jackal. Summary written by Jeff Cross {blackjac_1998@yahoo.com} The United States is trying to help the New Soviet Union with their war against organized crime in their country. Presently, they are after Terek Murad, a deadly crime boss. When they raid one of his establishments, Murad's brother is killed. Murad seeks revenge against the ones who killed his brother, FBI agent Carter Preston and Russian Policewoman Valentina Koslova, but most of all, he wants to send a message to the Americans about interfering in matters that don't concern them, so he hires an international assassin to kill someone very important to the United States. When the assassin advises Murad to go into hiding until the job is done, he does. Preston curious as to what Murad is doing, allows the Russians to abduct Murad's errand boy and torture him to find out what Murad is up to, and he utters the word Jackal which Preston recognizes as the name of an international assassin. They have to find him but unfortunatly, there is noone who knows who he is except for one person, whom they have to find and the only person who knows where that person is, is Declan Mulqueen, an IRA man, who is in prison, they offer to reduce his sentence is he helps them but refuses because all he wants is to be freed, so they decide to leave but he tells them that he knows who the Jackal is. So they release him and together they try to find the Jackal before he makes his move which won't be easy because he is very wily.

release year: 1997

star(s): Bruce Willis    Richard Gere