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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
In that very controversial political story, where it speaks of more powerful events. The story began as the abducted soldier becomes the next vice president of the United States. But on the other side there is another soldier racing to uncover the plot behind him, a conspiracy that seeks to destroy democracy itself. Maybe things could turn upside down.
23 July 1949, Tsingtao, China
25 June 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
25 November 1947, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
6 February 1976, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
17 September 1962, Detroit, Michigan, USA
October 18, 2008
Demme's direction is as punctilious as it was in Silence of the Lambs, careful with details and craftsmanlike with storytelling -- although we do have to work a bit to stay on top of things.
August 07, 2004
Beautifully made and unsurpassingly creepy, it's the rare remake with something contemporary to add.
June 24, 2006
Happily, this extremely timely entertainment matches, even perhaps surpasses its predecessor.
December 28, 2010
Sleek remake is more violent than original.
August 13, 2004
Strikes me as a very artful cover -- about the cleverest imaginable transliteration of the story from its historical moment to ours.
August 19, 2010
This humorless and nonsensical update of The Manchurian Candidate - a total misread of Frankenheimer's classic original - never quite engages, devolving the original's camp and satire into self-serious melodrama.
August 03, 2004
Following a dozen years of docs, light comedy, and p.c. weepies, Candidate represents Demme's best dramatic filmmaking since The Silence of the Lambs.
April 29, 2009
A rather decent imitation in the end with political subtext and very good performances.
August 08, 2004
Far from a disgrace, but it's not freewheeling enough, not strange enough to make sense of our gathering dread.
November 20, 2008
It is as shocking now as it was forty years ago, but nothing in the 2004 version approaches that level of intensity, intelligence, or audacity.
May 27, 2011
If it isn't the original's equal, The Manchurian Candidate conjures up an air of menace sufficient to make most modern thrillers look like romantic comedies.
August 28, 2004
Demme serves the picture completely.
