The Jackal Executes The Hit of a LIFETIME | The Day Of The Jackal

Munich. Where it all began.

Watch as The Jackal lines up the record-breaking shot that will change his life forever.

The Day Of The Jackal, starring Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch and Úrsula Corberó, is available to watch on Sky.

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[doggonefune]

For all those non long range shooters commenting.... It common to calibrate your point of impact to your point of aim with one shot by using your reticle (the cross hairs in the scope). The rifle was obviously sighted in previously, his small adjustments are to account for his elevated position, extreme distance and wind. Wind is the hardest part of making this kind of shot. The more glaring errors are the rifle firing noise. Maybe being suppressed the crowd noise covers it. Likely the bullet is subsonic before nearing the target at this range, and no, not all bullets tumble when transitioning to subsonic. As far as the noise of the rounds hitting the building... I'd be more worried about falling debris alerting someone.

[tylerdurden]

The movie is called: "Fantastic Headshots and Where to Make Them"

[alejandrocadavid]

So many professional and expert snipers in this video—I'm truly amazed at how many sniper pros and experts can fit into a single video.

[Aomura]

Jackal looks to camera: "wtf have you done lately?"

[AMGISLIT]

If you can create a scene this captivating... well, reality doesn’t even matter. All we need to do is watch, feel, and enjoy. Kudos to actor Eddie Redmayne.

[Rio.Motel.]

He knew to aim at a point which the target was going to be with absolute certainty and that was exactly at the door's entrance. Then he had to calculate the time it took the bullet to fly to target and the time it took the target to get to the door and having the bullet and the target meet exactly at the same time at the door's entrance. Brilliant.

[brahmincaleb]

I like his calmness... Even after taking the shot he deliberately let the guards see him there. He was almost 4km away nobody could get there in 1 minute.

[martinniemoller]

The craziest thing about this scene to me, other than the shooter. is the gunsmith who can make a ghost gun, concealable in a suitcase. and can hit a headshot at 3.8 km. hed be the most well-paid gunsmith in the world working for spec ops or intelligence.

[LC-sqcl]

Eddie Redmayne is the BOMB!
What a Great Actor this young man is!!!

[Icatchflights]

That first two test calibrated shots was so risky the spent rounds could of fell from the target and alerted the guards

[rajbiswas]

The attention to the detail is amazing.. he is adjusting the windage and elevation with every shot, his point of aim, and impact.. which you normally don't get to see in movies and series.. and then comes the rifle who ever thought of this give him or her a raise.. man, that's a serious work of art.. I have seen bespoke rifles before from Holland and Holland and LC Smith.. it's one thing to detach an entire barrel from the rifle body, and here you get a 2 part barrel.. what a masterpiece..

[RahulDas-vmyi]

The time laps between the test shot and the actual shot were too brilliant... Great scene by the director

[WhatThisVideo-WTv]

For people thinking the bullet round should have alerted the guards with supersonic cracks, the bullet would have started at supersonic speed when fired but with the longer distance(which later told in the series that it was 4+ kms), the bullet would have lost the kinetic energy so much that its speed has reduced below supersonic speed hence no crack sound.
For the impact sound look at 0:45, the guards are under the wall he shot at it later and protesters are really close, adjacent to the wall. So it is highly unlikely that any guard would have hear it.

[georgek]

Phenomenal TV show, finally watched it the other day. Eddie Redmayne was stellar casting, cool and calculated, top of his profession.

[nofishtoday]

How did this algorithm know I started watching this show last night? What else does it know??

[torduc]

“Albus, I must show you this new artifact I have acquired since my last excursion to the Muggle world - check this out!”

[TheSniperpal]

3800 meters is the real life record for longest confirmed sniper kill, so that parts not unfeasible. Issue is he’s not using a weapon and round even remotely close to what the Ukrainian sniper who made the real life record shot was using

[paulhornsey-pennell]

i daresay there are countless comments below this one on whether or not his detail to attention as a sniper was accurate or not ... and i can't be bothered as i simply don't know ... i will say however that redmayn's ability to maintain a totally relaxed face, expressionless, calm and focused was (for me) so effective in portraying what i would imagine to be an assassin ... someone simply "doing a job" removing all emotion. loved it!

[Reboget]

Being honest here from my experience. This is literally how sniping is. No useless triggering, rest ur head on the rifle and wait for the moment and predict the future.

[kniter]

Some people in the comments are saying you can compensate by dialing in elevation. I am almost certain they've never shot PRS or ELR.
People greatly underestimate how long 3800m is, and overestimate how capable modern small arms are.
Even if we ignore there isnt an optic that can see the target that vividly at these ranges, there is literally no way in hell that scope could dial in for elevation to a point the center cross is the POI at 3800 meters, you'd run out of adjustment without a 20 MOA offset rail and a periscope like the TACOMHQ TARAC. Group sizes become left to luck past 1700 for .338 Lapua and a some over 2000 for .375 Cheytac. At this range you would have to tip the barrel up and mortar rounds onto the target, not a dead on level hit. Given the casings ejected, what he's shooting is far too small caliber with too little ogive space, meaning what he's shooting is wildly inadequate for a scenario like this

Also that travel is way too fast for something that far away