The Parallax View
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Hume Cronyn, Kenneth Mars, Walter McGinn, Warren Beatty, William Daniels DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 102 minutes DVD Release Date: 1999-06-22 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Paramount |
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Movie Reviews of The Parallax View
Movie Review: Not "Marathon Man", Not "Three Day of the Condor"...
Summary: 1 Stars
Beware... Not "The Conversation" either, or any type of 1970s similar genre flick, this caught my attention because I simply rave about these type of films, from the 1970s and all, when I heard about the DVD I thought this was going to be a cult gem item. It isn't. It is totally unintelligible and illogical to the point where it almost resembles a similar movie, the recent "Arlington Road", that gets my vote instead. Do yourself a favour and rent this one with reserves before you buy it. The film obviously tanked for whatever reason. The 35mm original print is very corrupt. The sound is probably some of the poorest I have heard for a 1970s "mainstream" conspiracy movie. To make matters worse the actual direction is flawed to the point of being badly disconnected in terms of editing, overall the production values here seem to have bottomed out, possibly script altering by Warren or something, who delivers on a compelling performance, but frankly is blanked out completely by the horrible pacing, third rate crackerjack story with only one cool idea going for it - that a reporter who cheats an exam by using a psychopath to do the test for him so that he can gain access to an exclusive hit man club - sadly doesn't cut it, especially when the awful rehash of the scene from Clockwork Orange, made two years previously, comes like a really bad attempt at style, a little creepy, sure, but ultimately just blathering nonsense trying to be Kubrick's latter, The Parallax View is not a very nice DVD, not a very nice movie and as far as I can tell a little bit of a botched job that should maybe have been left mold a bit longer in the can. It makes no sense why with this much fungi in terms of image quality and story should ever have been resurrected. I would wonder if Warren Beatty even knows that they released it again? Really!
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