Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating bombing of a Parisian cafe. Now, he finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez.
Acting
Aidan Quinn plays two men losing their minds simultaneously
Direction
Duguay's sweaty, claustrophobic training sequences
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI tension built on actual locations and explosions
Director
Christian Duguay
Aidan Quinn
Annibal Ramirez / Carlos
Donald Sutherland
Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
Ben Kingsley
Amos
Claudia Ferri
Maura Ramirez
Céline Bonnier
Carla
Vlasta Vrana
KGB Head Officer
Liliana Komorowska
Agnieska
Von Flores
Koj
Gregory Hlady
KGB Aide
Gabriel Marian Oseciuc
KGB Agent
Frédéric Desager
KGB Agent
Al Waxman
Carl Mickens - CIA
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aidan Quinn spent weeks studying Carlos the Jackal's actual mannerisms and speech patterns, then had to forget them to play Ramirez.
This came out the same year as The Jackal with Bruce Willis—1997 was weirdly obsessed with this specific terrorist. The real Carlos was captured in 1994, making these films already nostalgic.
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