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This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

In his last film "Eyes Wide Shut", Kubrick pointed strait on the problem and so did Kramer with this film. It's called "Conspiracy theories", a magic Word that allows the average man to slip back into his normal brain-washed Life in which football and what have you is important instead of what really is important but so unnerving that you have to Wake up in order to deal with it. In short, it's all about accepting that it is OK that some people are rich and others are poor and try to make the best of it. The remedy is, of course, total material equality - no more rich and poor and everybody having the same of this Earth as it should be - but this film, or any film up to date, does not go that far but films like this film is a good step in the right direction as these directors knew just Before Death when it's no use to lie to yourself any more. Yes, Life begins with justice and i have not lived, nor have you or anyone you ever Heard off. Well, that's not entirely true, because when we were Children some of us lived in a World where there were no rich and poor until we came to school where, of course, we experienced differently and were made to accept it. Some of us still retain some decency and we cannot accept that if we do a job together with our fellow men and we all do as good as we can, that we then should not be paid equally. We cannot see that Those of us who were born with more strength and intelligence than others should go on being privileged forever. No, no we Think of justice and the only ones of us that should have more are those who are handicapped and manage to live a Life that we would never be able to live and, for sure, would never want to live. Well, back to the film, which tells the story of Lee Harvey Oswald, more or less. Not the official story of course but most probably the true story, if you can live with the fact that there are people who Think that it is quite OK that they have a thousand times more than other people and that these rich people are those who have the say so about Everything all over the World as things are now.

"The Domino Principle" has all but been forgotten today. Seeing it, it becomes clear why it hasn't become a cult movie to any degree. I will admit that it's not a terrible movie; in fact, it has some positive attributes. Gene Hackman is, as usual, solid. And Candice Bergen, who has been criticized many times for her bad performances in this time of her life, actually gives a decent performance. The movie also starts off fairly well, with quite a bit of mystery that slowly unpeels. But the movie ultimately unfolds TOO slowly. It takes forever for Hackman to get out of prison, and takes much longer for Hackman to understand what the mysterious organization wants from him. And we never really learn who the target is, and why he is targeted! I never would have guessed a famous filmmaker like Stanley Kramer was behind this movie, not just for its unusually slow pace but also for the fact that aside from some bad language and some violence, the movie feels exactly like a made-for-TV effort.

People are being too hard on the film. Sometimes we should just sit back and enjoy the story without attempting to "review" it.The whole thing comes together when Hackman decides not to pull the trigger but his target still goes down. Then the fun begins as everyone about him also "go down".Just think JFK and all the people associated in any way with his assassination, who's lives ended abruptly and in questionable ways and you'll appreciate what is implied in this film.I think it's an excellent interpretation of what may well have occurred. Though the EXACT story line my not have been followed (hindsight here after reading Jim Maars "Crossfire") but it's what is implied that is of interest.I'd love to get a copy of it to view it again. In light of what is known today, The Domino Principle is right on.

Bad wigs and occasionally hokey dialogue aside, there's a reason why several reviewers found the plot confusing. As originally scripted and filmed, the movie was almost three hours long. Kramer was required to edit it down to 97 minutes. Big pieces of the plot were left on the cutting-room floor.This is, unfortunately, a frequent occurrence. People in positions of power on films become enamored of every word and fight against making any cuts to the script. It may be one of the producers, writers or stars; it varies from picture to picture. Whoever it is, they have the juice to get their way, so it all gets shot. When distributors subsequently refuse to accept an overly long film, scenes must be deleted. Had they been deleted earlier, during the writing process, the missing bits could have been covered in existing dialog, or plot points could have been reconceived in order to be shortened. Once the film is in the can, it's too late. Dropped scenes mean dropped connections between what came before and what comes after.The result is a mess like this one. Who knows whether we would have liked it better had we seen the original cut? The wig would still be as bad and there would probably be more hokey lines of dialogue. But the story would have made more sense -- at least to the extent that conspiracy stories ever make sense.