Three Days of the Condor
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Movie Reviews of Three Days of the Condor
Movie Review: Top Notch CIA Thriller!
Summary: 5 Stars
Every time I re-watch this movie I feel very sad and then very angry at the same time. The reason being that many of the location shots were taken in and around the World Trade Center. Don't know about you but I haven't forgotten about that fateful September day as many seem to have. That aside, if you think about it, this movie is ever so contemporary in its main plot. Kind of makes you wonder what really is going on. Thinking what Director Higgins said at the end of the movie regarding food, oil, etc., "Don't ask people now, ask them then"! No politics here, just think with road rage and stupid attitudes of today along with the tremendous number of cars on the road: How would America deal with the gas shortages as with the mid 1970's oil embargo? Food for thought.
UPDATE! 10.12.06
Well, I got my answer. The summer of 2006, everybody just paid the $3 bucks a gallon and went about business as usual. But then again the long lines from the 70's never appeared either.
UPDATE! 03.26.08
Well, here it is two years later and gas is OVER $3 bucks a gallon heading towards $4.00 making this movie more contemporary every minute! (IMHO)
UPDATE! 08.08.08
Well, gas did make it to over $4.00 a gallon. Down a bit but it could go up in a heartbeat. Wouldn't you just love to see this movie back on the big screen? It would make a mighty pertinent statement in this election year.
Movie Review: GREAT FILM, UNIMPRESIVE POLITICAL VIEWS
Summary: 5 Stars
Robert Redford made a clunker called "The Way We Were" with Barbra Streisand that desperately tried to explain, apologize for, justify, glorify and approve of being an American Communist during McCarthyism, but just plain fails. He made the 1973 classic "Three Days of the Condor" (1973), with Cliff Robertson and Faye Dunnaway. He plays a CIA reader, a kind of pre-Tom Clancy research guy, a benign fellow among other benign CIA fellows, all of whom are murdered in a fuzzily explained hit by bad CIA fellows. After escaping, Redford tries to get to the bottom of it. Since he is a genius he has the intellectual tools to outwit his chasers. This is the film's highlight, revolving around the sexual tension between Redford and the redoubtable Faye, who he "kidnaps" in order to have a place to hide out, her apartment. The movie goes off the deep when the whole conspiracy turns out to be about the CIA's covert operations in the Middle East, where the U.S. apparently is planning the invasion (that never actually occurred) to take over OPEC. The message is that The Company murders innocents, the U.S. is a warmongering empire, and tool of capitalist greed. It is Redford's answer to Guatemala, Iran and Chile, where the people killed were generally Communists. Redford would rather show the CIA killing Chinese- and African-Americans and other non-threats.Movie Review: When patriots ruled
Summary: 5 Stars
It has been 20 years or so since watching this taut, suspenseful yarn that places duty and honor above company loyalty in the hands of a CIA book reader.On re-viewing this film, I would give this higher marks. Since 1975, media as an information-gatherer has turned into propaganda machine with no courageous patriots within.Instead of hired assassins as instruments, "the company" just reads to an indifferent TV audience, more diverted by Britney, than the takeover of democracy. The reviewer of "Shibumi" had things right when relating that novel to this movie.I found it also interesting in light of 9/11 events, that the Cliff Robertson (CIA division head) was transported to his NY office in the Twin Towers, when he set out on capturing the elusive Condor. It is a thrilling ride from beginning to end with a surprising finish. Robertson's character makes a threat, but Condor(Redford)unflinchingly accepts his fate of remaining "out there." The only check to a tyrannical government, or one with a hidden agenda, is the vigilant, informed citizen, or one Nicolai Hel in "Shibumi." This film is a must-see for anyone desiring to see citizenship in action in the modern era.How long must citizens accept "obfuscation" and "misstatement" for the truth?Movie Review: Riveting political thriller
Summary: 5 Stars
In "Three Days of the Condor" Robert Redford plays Joseph Turner a CIA analyst who spends his days reading books trying to spot possible operations that the CIA who tries reads books trying to spot covert operations. When the rest of his unit is assassinated, Turner code named Condor goes on the run. He's not sure if the CIA is trying to kill him or some other organization. To escape he kidnaps Kathy Hale (Faye Dunaway)a woman who is renting skis for a vacation. Somehow Turner has to discover why his group was killed whether or not he can trust the deputy director (Cliff Robinson)of the CIA to bring him in and avoid the assassin (Max von Sydow)hired to eliminate the last member of the unit.
A riveting thriller with geat direction by film veteran Sidney Pollack ("Tootsie", "The Interpreter"), "Condor" has lost none of its power more than twenty years on. Although Paramount is stingy with extras (they usually are)giving us only the film and the theatrical trailer. The film looks pretty nice but could do with a commentary track from Pollack and a look back at this classic movie.
Movie Review: Top Ten of all time
Summary: 5 Stars
This extraordinarily good movie mixes government intrigue with a normal run-of-the-mill guy, who would have been a computer nerd if the movie had not been set in the mid seventies. Robert Redford is the consummate bookworm, stuck with the rather innocuous job of reading almost everything published in search of hidden word patterns, etc. that operators may have planted in otherwise innocent material, so as to organize covert operations right under the nose of the CIA and the U.S. government. Having submitted a report in which he believes he has found hidden meaning which may jeopardize our way of life, he unwittingly finds himself right in the middle of unimaginable danger, trying to escape from those responsible for the killing of everyone in his office - and being accused by everyone else as being the perpetrator. Top notch development of the story line filled with plot twists and turns, accompanied by excellent acting. Though not overly complicated, viewing the movie a second time greatly enhances the experience due to the intelligent depth of the story. A true masterpiece.