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It is a performances centric movie

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Even Denzel and Meryl could not save this remake of a classic cold war thriller. Meryl was no match for Angela Lansbury, and Denzel did not ring true in his role, originally played by Frank Sinatra. Lawrence Harvey was outstanding in the original and Schrieber while looking like Harvey was not equal to him. The major flaw though was changing who the bad guys were. In 1962, the Cold War was in full swing and brainwashing by the Chinese Communists was very real. The story does not translate well by updating the time frame.

You will see a technology that you can imagine that can influence today's politics.

In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes. The Manchurian Candidate is a 2004 remake of the 1962 movie starring Frank Sinatra but instead on this version we have actors Denzel Washington and Liev Schreiber and although i did enjoyed the film has major flaws for example the editing is weird we get a scene of Ben in a train's bathroom washing his face and suddenly someone shows up and talks to him he looks at the guy and next very shot is him arriving on the station without any explanation also when Eleanor says something to Raymond and he looks at her the movie cuts and we arrive at the house of Tom Jordan and Jocelyne Jordan played by Jon Voight and Vera Farmiga which brings me to one more problem great actors totally getting wasted in dumb roles they immediately get killed. Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs) and Miguel Ferrer (Robocop) are also 2 more wasted talented people and don't get me wrong the film has great actors and the acting is pretty good and as a story it's pretty interesting but the execution reminds me a bit of Captain America: Winter Soldier and it's kinda dumb they basically turn into machines and they kill each other it worked in Universal Soldier a cheesy 90's film but in here? not so much i'll give The Manchurian Candidate a 7/10.

I guess in a new age of hysteria and paranoia where people believe that terrorists could be hiding next door, or plotting the next attack on American soil, that a remake of this movie needed to come out. However the problem is that the premise of this movie changes somewhat from the communist conspiracy that planned on placing a hypnotised vice president into the White House to control at will to a shadowy equity fund doing the same thing, but also setting up a presidential assassination on election night to drive the American people into such fear that they would pretty much give up all of their freedom for security.This seems to be one of those things with the American society, the conflict between freedom and security – we want to be secure from our enemies but we do not want to give up our freedoms to gain that security. Obviously there is also that argument that if you are not doing anything wrong then there is nothing to worry about, and that is all well and good until you suddenly discover that the things that you do have suddenly been made illegal, or you are arrested on trumped up charges.This film, like the book, is about fear, paranoia, and control. It is interesting that they never actually say which political party the candidate represents, and there is no actual mention of the War on Terror, or the War in Iraq, but I guess it is a warning as to how things can move. Granted America has enemies – everybody has enemies – it is a natural part of life, but the question comes down to how does one respond to those enemies, and is one doing things that is creating more of those enemies.Some have suggested that this film is just some paranoid left-wing conspiracy, but to be honest with you, I have seen some videos produced by some conspiracy theorists on the far right that are just as out there as this film. I consider myself somewhat left leaning (though not extreme as some are, though I suspect compared to the average American I probably am quite extreme) but generally ignore theories such as the American Government blew up the twin towers to start the war on terror, though I have watched some of those documentaries and it is scary the amount of research that they seem to put into them, and they are quite convincing. However, most of these videos usually come down to one argument, and that the American nationalism, which is not left wing, but right wing to the extreme.