The Parallax View
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Movie Reviews of The Parallax View
Movie Review: NOT SURE WHAT BEATTY WAS SHOOTING FOR
Summary: 3 Stars
"The Parallax View" was big liberal Warren Beatty's attempt to describe a conspiracy involving shadowy government agencies. It is entertaining and worth watching, but misses the mark. Beatty seems to be trying to piece together an explanation on how, or even who, killed Kennedy. "The Manchurian Candidate" may have inspired him. Beatty plays a journalist who goes undercover, allowing himself to be recruited by the Parallax Corporation, presumably a CIA front that trains assassins. His psychological profile is determined in part by watching a disturbing montage of scenes, ranging from love, sex and patriotism to war, gore and devil worship, mixed with the juxtaposition of wealth vs. need. The point seems to be that people go hungry while rich America has sex and kills people?STEVEN TRAVERS
AUTHOR OF "BARRY BONDS: BASEBALL'S SUPERMAN"
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Movie Review: WAY OVERPRICED FOR AN OLD "CLUNKER"
Summary: 3 Stars
I HAD CONSIDERED THE PURCHASE OF THE DVD BUT DID NOT LIKE THE PRICE. COINCIDENTLY IT APPEARED ON TV RECENTLY AND I FOUND IT TO BE DISJOINTED, FAIRLY PREDICTABLE AND AT TIMES VERY IMPLAUSIBLE. PAULA PRENTISS IS WASTED IN THIS FILM AND BEATTY SEEMED CONFUSED AT TIMES ... PERHAPS BY THE SCRIPT? BUY THE DAY OF THE CONDOR ... SO MUCH BETTER AND MAKES MORE SENSE.Movie Review: Potential squandered by sloppy storytelling
Summary: 2 Stars
This revered '70s paranoia thriller strikes me as a major disappointment. It starts out promisingly with an intriguing conspiracy plot, but director Alan J. Pakula is simply a lousy storyteller. His sense of pacing is terrible--scenes go on for far too long, often while we don't really understand what is happening in them, and then cut abruptly to something new. Parts of the film that are intended to be suspenseful register as dull and confusing. This does have its compensations; Pakula and the great DP Gordon Willis create some striking visual compositions, Warren Beatty does a nice job with his underwritten role, and the famous brainwashing montage is terrific. But the story is too incoherent to deliver the goods as a thriller, and the movie never recovers from Pakula's narrative indifference.Movie Review: Dated and dull
Summary: 2 Stars
The Bottom Line:
I imagine that when The Parallax View was released the post-Watergate sense of paranoia obscured the film's many flaws, but viewed today it's a boring thriller with a dull Beatty in the lead that's chockablock with plot holes and contrivances leading up to an ending that's supposed to be poignant but comes across as ludicrous; skip this dated thriller and watch The Manchurian Candidate instead.
2/4
Movie Review: Poor quality
Summary: 2 Stars
The sound track was horrible - could barely hear the dialog while the special effects and music were extremely loud. A lot of the scenes were very dark. Did not hold up as well as I remember the original.