The Manchurian Candidate [HD DVD]
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Canada DVD Cover InformationActor: Anthony Mackie, Dorian Missick, Jeffrey Wright, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Pablo SchreiberBrand: Paramount DVD: Region Code 0 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Color, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 129 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-08-01 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Paramount Movie Reviews of The Manchurian Candidate [HD DVD]Movie Review: If This Isn't "Engaging" Then What is?
This is a riveting and provocative remake by a top-rate director in Jonathan Demme. The original with Frank Sinatra may very well have been controversial and its plot far-fetched, but the acting was so compelling and sincere that it effaced these objections and commanded even the most skeptical viewer's full attention. With its stellar cast -- the brilliant Meryl Streep and the always reliable Denzel Washington -- this film delivers precisely the same merits. Streep's performance as a smarmy, power-obsessed US senator bent on advancing her son's political career is so convincing as to induce chills, while Denzel never once flinches as a disturbingly paranoid victim of US intelligence abuses. Especially welcome is Demme's courageous decision not to make a stale carbon copy of the film's classic predecessor, but to reinvent it in a more contemporary setting: the post gulf-war/9-11 world. Fueled largely by the hysterical climate of fear and terror we now live in, his portrayal of contemporary American life is thoroughly convincing and lends credence to its premise: a government conspiracy to plant a privately-owned president in the white house. Besides, in our age of campaign finance disarray and the public interconnectedness between military operations and corporate profit (hence Eisenhower's prophetic farewell speech), the accusation seems less far-fetched than naive, for it certainly does not take some fantastic intelligence scheme to buy-out a politician. American history is rife with examples and the pattern continues to this day. Just take a look at some of the current allegations against Tom Delay.
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