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First, why does the film look like it is out of focus? At first it looked like perhaps it was a flashback technique, but it continues through the entire film. I had to stop and ensure my glasses were not smudged.

The first hour of the movie is a disconnected, convoluted mess with the viewer completely lost at to the significance of the Jamie Curtis character and the timing of events. The "boyfriend" out of the past showing up, without any apparent connection to the plot is messy and unnecessary.

"Libby" is way too young to be a professor at any university, PhD or not. A certain amount of life experience is expected for anyone teaching history or political science (never quite sure of the subject matter).

Add in the obligatory middle eastern suspicious lurking character and the obfuscation continues.

I'm afraid that by the time the director begins to get to the point most of the audience would have moved on.

One would expect someone: director, costume dept, anyone, would had least made a reasonable effort to get the facts near accurate. The Arizona DPS patches worn by the Arizona Highway Patrol (AHP)did not exist, neither did DPS. It was called the Arizona Highway Patrol. They wore Smokey Bear hats, not cowboy hats. Why is the "Sheriff" wearing the uniform of the AHP? Either he's a county sheriff (Pinal County) or a AHP ranking officer.

Why is everyone talking like they are from Alabama? Arizonans speak w/o any accents, I ought to know, live there for 50 years now.

Gary Tyson was a fat slob, not lean and trim like Patrick. And there are plenty of cacti near Casa Grande (for those who say only in Tucson). Everyone of his sons were sociopaths. Don't buy into the" innocent boys" line.

The Day of the Jackal (1971) a thriller by Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organization, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France. The original movie was a masterful retelling of the hunt of the jackal. The unrelenting pursuit of the assassin by France's best detective Claude Lebel is what made the movie great.

The 2024 remake has nothing in common with the book, other than its title. The plot is a convoluted, confused mess with multiple side trips to lengthen the story to five episodes. A simple 2-hour movie would have accomplished much more.

The Jackal, played with style by Eddie Redmayne, originally a lone cold-blooded professional now has a wife and a child, really? An attention getting distraction that adds nothing to the plot but an unneeded soap opera distraction so common in today's film. The MI6 operative chasing the Jackal appears to be the most incompetent person in MI6.

Watch the original again, you'll be better off.