You see this is how you adapt Fred Forsyth - respect the research, do it as a quasi documentary, film on location, respect the source material if it's good. This is a procedural thriller, where the joy is in the detail, benefiting from Forsyth's decade plus experience as a journalist.
Edward Fox's relative anonymity works for him. The support cast features vaguely recogniseable faces like Michael Lonsdale (I like how he's not introduced until later it feels more real), Delphine Seyrig (as the woman who can't resist the Jackal's bod... a trashier element of the novel), and Derek Nimmo.
I will admit at 140 minutes director Fred Zinnemann maybe pushes it a little but the climax is terrifically entertaining and it's a very good movie.
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