The Manchurian Candidate

IMDB Rating: 6.70, 20017 votes

Taglines
  • This summer everything is under control.
Storyline
When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn't happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.
Actors
Al MelvinJeffrey Wright
Eddie IngramPablo Schreiber
Robert BakerAnthony Mackie
OwensDorian Missick
VillalobosJose Pablo Cantillo
WilsonTeddy Dunn
AtkinsJoaquin Perez-Campbell
JamesonTim Artz
Ben MarcoDenzel Washington
Laurent TokarRobyn Hitchcock
Raymond ShawLiev Schreiber
Boy Scout #1Antoine Taylor
Boy Scout #2Joseph Alessi
Scout DadRaymond Anthony Thomas
ScoutmasterBill Irwin

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7 Comments

  1. lena2

    lil slow but better than suspec zero, keeps your attentio more than man on fire

  2. dwyer

    Not bad…

  3. iop435

    Good story and good acting, but…
    there was more graphic violence than the trailer led you to believe. Some parts were very predictable, but overall they did a good job with this movie - good enough that now I’m interested in seeing the original…

  4. thomas

    Very graphic, but a good flick

  5. ylk

    Rent this one. The story is a bit slow and predictable.

  6. gazsi

    Enjoyable, well done attempt.
    It takes some brass ones to remake a classic that was way ahead of its’ time and contained some real cinema daring do. If you have never seen the 1962 original you’ll like this one. If you have seen the Frankenheimer movie you’ll be disappointed. Not as dark or as dangerous. There is no attempt to match the classic 360

  7. Kitt

    Enjoyable, well done attempt.
    It takes some brass ones to remake a classic that was way ahead of its’ time and contained some real cinema daring do. If you have never seen the 1962 original you’ll like this one. If you have seen the Frankenheimer movie you’ll be disappointed. Not as dark or as dangerous. There is no attempt to match the classic 360

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