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Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Holy crap this movie sucked. I know I was prejudiced going into it, but I had faith in the people who shared similar tastes to my own who said it held up on its own in comparison with the old 1962 version. Boy were they exaggerating! This movie was SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. I mean SLOW. Ric and I were practically hitting ourselves over the head. And the dialogue was so "great" that one particular line in the movie had the entire audience laughing.

Denzel is.. well, you know. Denzel. This was a movie where he started out as humble Denzel and ended as loud Denzel. All the while, he managed to maintain complete arrogance.

The story itself is changed a lot from the original. I think the premise had some promise, but the way they changed it also lost some of the greatest parts of the first film. Where is the great relationship with Josie and her father? Where is the ignorant step-father? The emphasis on hypnotic actions? Where is Marco's COOL girlfriend (in comparison with a sassy I'm nice - no I'm not - yes I am chick)? Everything I really liked about the first movie was gone. Not to mention the fact that Denzel was replacing Frank Sinatra. How pathetic. There wasn't any retention of the dialog, except for one tiny little exerpt of a speech at the end of the movie.

Bah!

I don't think I can emphasize enough how slow this movie was.

The idea was cool, the acting was merely okay, the story was long and not as well developed as the first, and the style lacked.

Major disappointment, and not really worth the free admission I had at the dollar theatre.

SLOW. VERY SLOW. Slllllllooooooooooooowwah.

Posted by wendytime at October 25, 2004 12:41 PM | TrackBack