A gritty, brisk cat-and-mouse chase across Europe follows a lone assassin and a tenacious intelligence officer.
Suspenseful and tense. A full-attention watch at a brisk pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Peacock.
What we could confirm fits a TV-MA: some innuendo or implied sex and strong violence.
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An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.
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