The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
82 %
Reviews Counted: 192 Fresh: 158 Rotten:34 Average Rating: 7.2/10
Consensus:
While not the classic its predecessor is, this update is well-acted and conjures a chilling resonance.
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Theatrical Release: Jul 30, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $65,898,487
Synopsis: Jonathan Demme updates the original 1962 John Frankenheimer classic with plenty of new paranoid twists: This time a sinister Halliburton-style corporation is behind the brainwashing of a Gulf War hero turned vice presidential nominee, Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber). Shaw's old unit... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Jon Voight, Kimberly Elise
Director: Jonathan Demme
Screenwriter: George Axelrod, Daniel Pyne, Dean Georgaris
Producer: Scott Rudin, Jonathan Demme, Ilona Herzberg, Tina Sinatra
Composer: Rachel Portman, Wyclef Jean
Screenwriter: George Axelrod, Daniel Pyne, Dean Georgaris
Producer: Scott Rudin, Jonathan Demme, Ilona Herzberg, Tina Sinatra
Composer: Rachel Portman, Wyclef Jean
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11/01/07
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With an inchoate admonition implanted in its aggrieved, post-modern heart, Demme's Manchurian Candidate is blippy and fractured and smeared with color.
09/09/07
The movie is playing with ideas, and they're important enough to bear thinking about now. What it's playing on are our fears. And they're real enough, and worth addressing.
09/27/06
This humorless and nonsensical so-called thriller--a total misread of Frankenheimer's classic original--never quite engages...
08/27/06
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06/24/06
A superb piece of filmmaking by directing icon Jonathan Demme that surpasses the John Frankenheimer original in ways I didn't think possible.
01/11/06
This is a good old-fashioned thriller, nothing less, and nothing more.
06/21/05
An exhilarating, if politically wishy-washy, modern-day reimagining of Frankenheimer’s gem.
05/04/05
Demme’s The Manchurian Candidate is a political popcorn pleaser that’s rousing in its sheer rawness.
01/26/05
Demme takes the excellent source material ... and recreates it in a new style, with energy, wit, and a profound sense of cultural relevance.
12/31/04
An intelligent, provocative blockbuster that succeeds on its own merits.
12/07/04
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