Three Days of the Condor

Buy This Item Three Days of the Condor by Paramount  Available from Amazon  $9.99  on 11-14-2008     Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack continued their longtime collaboration (the actor and director have worked together on <I>Jeremiah Johnson</I>, <I>The Way We Were</I>, <I>The Electric Horseman</I>, and <I>Out of Africa</I>, among other films) with this taut spy drama. Redford plays a reader for U.S. intelligence who becomes a hunted man after he is not among the victims of a mass murder of his colleagues. Faye Dunaway does solid work as the frightened and mystified woman whom he forces to conceal him, and Max von Sydow is appropriately cool as a professional assassin. That same, sustained tone of danger and expectation that made Pollack's <I>The Firm</I> so much fun can be found in this 1975 thriller, albeit with an appropriate dose of post-Watergate paranoia. <I>--Tom Keogh</I> Reader Reviews A movie that violates my cardinal rule as an amateur rewiewer: one should only have to see a film once for it to be comprehensible. I viewed Condor for the third time tonight, and I'm not sure that I've gotten it right yet. There is absolutely no need of acting talent like Redford, Dunaway, Robertson,and Houseman playing second fiddle to an inferior, confusing script. For the modern set, just imagine Kate Winslet, George Clooney, and Matt Damon suddenly showing up as operators 12, 14, and 15 in a remake of The Three Stooges'"Uncivil Warriors". The photography is vintage 1970's New York, and the lack of a musical score actually heightens the reality and suspense of the production. This is definitely not "My Fair Lady". Another point: Where are the police? 7 people dead and only one reported so by one cop? A prolonged sexual exchange between 2 people who seconds before were afraid of murdering each other? This is reality? Anyway, I'm really sorry to go against the grain here. I just can't read the green!

Three Days of the Condor Available from Amazon Price: $9.99 Updated on 11-14-2008.

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