Shaft vs The Jackal
The Jackal has the higher audience score (6.4/10 against 6/10 for Shaft). Shaft is the shorter watch at 1h 39m compared with 2h 4m. The Jackal is the older of the two (1997 against 2000). Both are action, adventure, crime movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Shaft
The Jackal| Shaft | The Jackal | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.0/10 | ★ 6.4/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 1997 |
| Length | 1h 39m | 2h 4m |
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller | Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | John Singleton | Michael Caton-Jones |
| Main cast | Jeffrey Wright, Samuel L. Jackson, Christian Bale, Daniel von Bargen, Josef Sommer | David Hayman, Richard Gere, Jack Black, Bruce Willis, J.K. Simmons |
Synopsis
Shaft
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
The Jackal
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
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