Review: Carlos The Jackal

Cut-down from the 5 and half hour long French mini-series, it's rather apt that this biopic of famous plane-jacker Carlos the Jackal flies along a rapid pace.

Thanks to its subject matter, style and having a stunning performance in the lead role, Carlos is reminiscent of recent films such as Mesrine and Steven Soderbergh's Ché - but where those were wisely released in 2 parts, despite its quality the first half of Carlos in particular suffers slightly from feeling like its being played in fast-forward at times.

Things settle down once we reach the raid of 1975 OPEC meeting and the fallout from events, but whilst being highly enjoyable, anyone watching the film version will feel that they're missing out by not going for the full 5 and half hours.