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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
In that powerful story, there seems to be a dark political side trying to destroy democracy. That story begins when the abducted soldier becomes the next vice president of the United States under these bad conditions. But another soldier is still trying to uncover the plot behind him, a conspiracy that seeks to destroy democracy itself. There could be more challenges for everyone.
11 August 1950, Albany, New York, USA
19 April 1949, Lakeland, Florida, USA
17 October 1969, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, USA
4 March 1941, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
5 March 1936, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 March 1953, Paddington, London, England, UK
25 June 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
20 August 1958, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
30 March 1979, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA
28 July 1970
December 28, 2010
Sleek remake is more violent than original.
April 29, 2009
A rather decent imitation in the end with political subtext and very good performances.
August 07, 2004
Beautifully made and unsurpassingly creepy, it's the rare remake with something contemporary to add.
October 18, 2008
Demme's direction is as punctilious as it was in Silence of the Lambs, careful with details and craftsmanlike with storytelling -- although we do have to work a bit to stay on top of things.
May 27, 2011
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.
November 20, 2008
It is as shocking now as it was forty years ago, but nothing in the 2004 version approaches that level of intensity, intelligence, or audacity.
August 28, 2004
Demme serves the picture completely.
August 19, 2010
This humorless and nonsensical update of The Manchurian Candidate - a total misread of Frankenheimer's classic original - never quite engages, devolving the original's camp and satire into self-serious melodrama.
August 03, 2004
Following a dozen years of docs, light comedy, and p.c. weepies, Candidate represents Demme's best dramatic filmmaking since The Silence of the Lambs.
August 13, 2004
Strikes me as a very artful cover -- about the cleverest imaginable transliteration of the story from its historical moment to ours.
June 24, 2006
Happily, this extremely timely entertainment matches, even perhaps surpasses its predecessor.
August 08, 2004
Far from a disgrace, but it's not freewheeling enough, not strange enough to make sense of our gathering dread.