The Manchurian Candidate (Blu-ray) R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: October 24, 2017
  • Originally Released: 2004
  • Label: Paramount

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Rating: 3/5 -- 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. Full Review
Film4
May 27, 2011
[An] exceptionally intelligent entertainment and a high point of director Jonathan Demme's career.
Los Angeles Times
Jul 30, 2004
Jonathan Demme's new Manchurian Candidate is a gourmet-popcorn movie--a hugely entertaining thriller shot through with dark shards of agony and paranoia. It takes nothing away from the original while delivering pleasures all its own. Full Review
Newsweek
Jul 6, 2010
Rating: 3/5 -- A polished remake of a 60s classic.
BBC.com
Nov 17, 2004
[A] scary summer flick about mind control and corporate conspiracy.
Entertainment Weekly
Aug 6, 2004
The surprises surprised me so much that I am not sure I have quite mastered the plot yet. It is all excellent fun but, as with the original, not serious. Full Review
The Spectator
Jan 29, 2018
All hell breaks loose as Demme catches the audience in a vise of churning suspense and corrosive wit.
Rolling Stone
Aug 6, 2004

Product Description:

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 commander Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) recommended him for the National Medal of Honor, though he can't remember exactly why, and his recurring nightmares drive him to uncover a massive conspiracy. Sinister forces at work include shifty-eyed bodyguards, a love interest with questionable motives (Kimberly Elise), and Raymond's domineering senator mother (Meryl Streep). Demme infuses the proceedings with enough paranoia and uncomfortable close-ups to rival his 1991 Oscar-winner, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. Layered sound, overlapping dialogue, and creepy cinematography by Tak Fujimoto (who also worked on LAMBS) further heighten the uneasiness. Demme regulars Roger Corman, Charles Napier, Paul Lazar, and Tracey Walter show up in bit parts as usual. Comedian Al Franken is a welcome face as a TV correspondent, and quirky indie rocker Robyn Hitchcock plays one of the brainwashing specialists. Needless to say, Denzel is superb. Streep is terrifying and hilarious as the maniacal Mrs. Shaw. As with the original (which focused on communist instead of terrorist fear-mongering), the events depicted here are doubly unsettling considering their uncanny resemblance to real-life politics at the time of this film's theatrical release.

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