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April 18, 2005
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Jonathan Demme:
It's an interesting concept, at least, updating the Manchurian Candidate with Multi-National Corporations instead of Communists, but this doesn't feel like it got much further beyond the "Hey, wouldn't it be great if..." stage.
In particular, the end (which was so magnificently orchestrated in the original) is a messy reshuffling. It's as if the filmmakers knew they had to change the ending somehow, so they just gave different characters different roles and left it at that, with little regard to why anything at all like that should happen. Lazy, lazy, lazy.
4/15
Posted by bing at April 18, 2005 04:42 PM