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Waste of time

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Pretty Good

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Great actors and director. One of the most sexy scenes in film history, and without explicit images needed, Redford and Dunaway. That is Greatness. Fun to watch Max Von Sydow as well. BEAUTIFUL, MAGNIFICENT movie.

I don't know what it is about this film that I like so much. Is it the idea of Robert Redford as the everyman, in over his head? Is it the beautiful Faye Dunaway, who is sexy and formidable? Is it Max Von Sydow from all those Bergman films holding forth on how the world is controlled by a small group of people? Then there is the constant pursuit where wits are needed or it's the end. So a previous reviewer talked about Hitchcock. This is a fast pace Hitchcock film. Like Cary Grant and Robert Donat, Robert Redford is only able to survive the overwhelming odds by getting a confederate, a woman, to help him. Redford is continually amazed at how he has left one frying pan to leap into the fire. And in the end, we are given one of those very unsettling statements that floor us. Watch this really cool film to see where all this goes.

For most movie buffs still alive the template - innocent man caught up in intrigue and forced to go on the run, somehow gets involved with a woman who goes along with him - was arguably John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps adapted for the screen by Hitchcock in the early thirties, and revisited by Hitchcock via North By North West in the sixties and the basic premise was still working in 1975 in this movie. Okay, a veneer of sophistication has been welded on but it's still innocent man in wrong place at wrong time, fleeing for his life, hooking up with girl who, for no real reason, helps him. This time around it has polish in the shape of support like Cliff Robinson, John Houseman and Max von Sydow and taut helming from Sydney Pollack. In sum: a Bourne movie sans violence.

I would under normal circumstances give this movie 8 - 9 out of 10 if it weren't for the horrible out-dated (albeit 'soft-porn-ish') violence against Faye Dunaway's character. It shows how far we've come that we no longer view the kidnapping of a woman in a film by the primary protagonist as a 'sexy' opportunity. EWWW! I'm really surprised that the 70s weren't more enlightened than this. Also quite surprised by Robert Redford agreeing to play such a creepy misogynist. It really spoils what would have been a near-perfect political thriller. I would under normal circumstances give this movie 8 - 9 out of 10 if it weren't for the horrible out-dated (albeit 'soft-porn-ish') violence against Faye Dunaway's character. It shows how far we've come that we no longer view the kidnapping of a woman in a film by the primary protagonist as a 'sexy' opportunity. EWWW! I'm really surprised that the 70s weren't more enlightened than this. Also quite surprised by Robert Redford agreeing to play such a creepy misogynist. It really spoils what would have been a near-perfect political thriller.