With this visually gripping sequence, the stage is set for one of the best suspense films of the 1970s, Sydney Pollack's classic THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR. Ī cold, rainy day in New York City.a small, cramped office building where a friendly, diverse group of CIA administrative types do research.one employee, a young 'reader' (Robert Redford), is assigned to pick up sandwiches, and takes a short cut through back alleys to a local deli.a van pulls up in front of the building, a group of disguised, armed assassins disembark, enter.and brutally kill every person in the building, leaving just before the 'reader' returns, to face the carnage. ![]() The flick will appeal to Robert Redford fans and thriller buffs. Rating : Good, better than average and worthwhile watching. ![]() Sydney was an excellent director, producer and secondary actor with several hits on all kind of genres as ¨The Interpreter¨, ¨The firm¨, ¨Out of Africa¨, ¨Tootsie¨, ¨Yakuza¨ and many others. The motion picture is stunningly directed by the recently deceased Sydney Pollack. by Owen Roizman- The exorcist- and atmospheric musical score by Dave Grusin. Very good cinematography, well filmed in New York City and Washington D.C. Excellent support cast as Cliff Robertson with special mention to veteran John Houseman and of course Max Von Sydow who expertly handles a vignette as cold murderer. Good performance from Robert Redford as bookish researcher working for US Intelligence office and Faye Dunaway as the innocent who Condor uses to avoid capture and shelter him. This exciting mystery contains thrills, action, shootouts, suspense and is quite entertaining. ![]() He must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust and he suddenly himself as hunted man, being only helped by a stranger woman (Faye Dunaway). The bookish CIA information reader (Robert Redford) aware more than he should and he finds all of his co-workers cruelly killed. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will attempt to murder him ( by an organization undercover called Five Continents Import Inc. Good intrigue yarn about a CIA agent whose code name is Condor who is forced to flee for his life when his cover operation (called American Literature History Society) is blown and becomes into man-on-the-run. I liked how the viewer is kept unsure about who if anybody within the CIA can be trusted without making everybody out to be monsters and when we do learn the motive it feels just as topical as it was back in the seventies. Director Sydney Pollack kept things tense throughout without things getting melodramatic. Robert Redford did a good job as man on the run Joseph Turner and Max von Sydow was particularly menacing as the soft spoken assassin. It was refreshing to watch a thriller that didn't rely on constant action in fact the tensest scenes often involved just two people talking where there was a feeling that something could happen at any moment. In order to survive he must find out just what it was that his section discovered that was so serious that people would kill to keep secret. He makes his escape by kidnapping a woman and eventually persuading her that he is actually one of the good guys and that he needs her help. ![]() He manages to escape but now he realises that he can't trust anybody inside the CIA. Realising he is in danger he leaves the scene and phones his superior from a phone box he is given instructions about how to come in safely but when he follows them he is ambushed. Robert Redford plays a CIA employee who returns from lunch to find his entire section has been killed why is a mystery, they aren't investigating anything serious they just analyse books. This thriller from 1975 has maintained its freshness sure the technology is old fashioned but the story is still gripping without relying on non-stop action, explosions and shaky camera work one would expect today.
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