The Day of the Jackal is a compulsive but conventional watch

It seems that after the 1973 movie adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s novel “The Day of the Jackal,” there were two films, “August 1” in the 80s and “The Jackal” in the 90s, which were loosely based on the same source material. Given these adaptations, one might think that this story had been overused and shouldn’t be adapted further.