Not a remake of 'Day of .......'

<Like 'Kimilseung' the OP states - this isn't a remake of 'The Day Of The Jackel' .... that involved a non-South American guy from the UK hired to assasinate General De Gaul.>






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I don't see how anyone could say that this film was not a remake of the The Day of the Jackal. You have too many similarities for it not to be.
The basic plot and even a lot of dialogue is too much like DOTJ to be anything but a remake. Granted, the targets and the locales are different, but in both films you have the assassin whose identity is unknown even in death, you have a gay man being both used and killed by the killer in both films, and you also have a very high-level leak who gives the bad guy vital information.
I guessed a lot of what was going to happen next by recalling what had happened in DOTJ. There were very few surprises for me here.
I will grant that there were differences as well. In DOTJ, the protagonists were the French police and the Jackal. In this film, you had an imprisoned terrorist helping the FBI and the MVD.
No, the two films were too similar for this film not to have been a remake of DOTJ.