The Parallax View
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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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Movie Review: Awful - SO awful.
Summary: 1 Stars
This is one of the worst films I've ever seen. It starts out OK, like every other conspiracy thriller, it's just quite slow. Then, just as you're getting more and more bored, it starts veering into the completely incomprehensible. NOt because there is a complex plot, just because there doesn't seem to be ANY plot. Nothing happens. There are long periods of silence, and warren beatty looking generally foolish and doing nothing, speaking to no-one, getting on a bus, wandering about etc. It all looks like one long drug trip. Or the bits from the cutting room floor of a thousand other films, not even pasted together to make a story.
Honestly, this is terrible. This film is so bad that my girlfriend (with whom I watched this film) has blanked it out of her mind completely and denies that she has ever seen it!
However good you think this looks - and I thought it looked quite promising too - it's dire. Don't waste your money on buying it, your time in watching it. Whoever you are, you are worth more than that.
Movie Review: Riveting scenes of an escalator going up and down
Summary: 1 Stars
I have read other reviews of this movie and clearly I am the slow kid in the class because I was unable to discern just exactly what this film was about. It has a cool title, and who doesn't love a good 70s political thriller, but this movie just wanders all over the place. It moves at a pace that goes barely fast enough so that you keep watching, but never actually gets you excited. And they used so much film to accomplish this!