Review of Three Days of the Condor (1975) by Andrey B — 15 Apr 2018
What does not age well: the music, the unnecessary love scene, the fight choreography. What does age well: everything else.
Oh, the Cold War. There's an irony in the statement one character makes when he says that he misses the "clarity" that the World Wars brought, versus the ambiguity of the Cold War. I remember hearing someone wax nostalgic about the Cold War vs the War on Terror using similar phrasing. There's a level of cinematic charm one experiences when revisiting a spy thriller in the days when espionage was a culture in and of itself. Redford plays a man just a little too cool for all that he goes through. Dunaway is meant to play extremes of shock and calm. Max Von Sydow is compelling as a perfectly amoral contract killer. And Cliff Robertson's calming and grounded presence helps sell the movie as an intelligent and noteworthy one.
This review of Three Days of the Condor (1975) was written by Andrey B on 15 Apr 2018.
Three Days of the Condor has generally received positive reviews.
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