Totally. Both of those movies were like watching the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan, looped.
This movie starts off immediately on high adrenaline and never lets up.
In the book, he also evades the French police by donning makeup and mincing and pouting at the checkpoint: the cops let him go in disgust, since such a nancy-boy couldn’t possibly be the man they’re looking for: which, of course, is exactly as he’d calculated.
I agree with Cal’s assessment of this movie: there isn’t a wasted scene, shot, or line of dialogue. It’s a master-class in suspenseful, economical movie-making, and anyone who thinks it’s “slow” needs their head examined: there’s nothing that ever makes you suspend your disbelief. Half of you wants the guy to succeed, the other half is screamimg, “For Christ’s sake catch him!” Top marks for its depiction of the police procedural, too: they catch up with him not by some miracle of intuition or deus ex machina, nor by his vaunting hubris - The Jackal seems to be wholly without ego - but by sheer dogged persistence.
I have to disagree because there was the moment when he’s at the signpost between Switzerland and back into France, and he knows his cover’s been blown and he probably won’t be getting the other half of his pay, but he takes the road back into France.
(I read somewhere that another movie with this same title was made in recent years, but I prefer to believe that it doesn’t exist)
I think you mean, lowest ratio.
I know this thread is from two months ago, but it’s not done. Nobody’s mentioned Cellular.
How about Aliens? That’s pretty intense all the way through.