# Real Bad Remakes of Movies

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> [@Brayne\_Ded](#):
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> Is that yet another remake? I saw the one starring Val Kilmer as the jackal, or approximation thereof.

As far as I know, Val Kilmer was never in a version of “The Jackal”. He was in “The Saint”, which was released around the same time as the Bruce Willis version of “The Jackal”, and a quick Google search reveals that for whatever reason a lot of contemporary reviews compared their performances in those two films. Possibly you’re getting them confused?

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