The actor stars in Peacock’s gripping 10-part adaptation of the 1971 bestseller about an assassin, who in this telling is hired to kill a tech billionaire.

The Day of the Jackal is a thriller that constantly stops trying to thrill, and more than any other failing, that lack of urgency, tension, or excitement is its fatal downfall. An incredibly loose adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s novel (which was made into a superior 1973 film by Fred Zinnemann) that has little relation to its source material aside from its general premise and main character,

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