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The Manchurian Candidate 2004 follows U.S. On the downside, The Manchurian Candidate 2004 suffers from two inadequate leads, irritating narrative absurdities (several also plagued the 1962 film), and, perhaps most problematic of all for a thriller, sluggish pacing. Lastly, Meryl Streep is in top form as a more humorous version of the character that earned Angela Lansbury a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination. Besides, at least in terms of technological advancements and their inherent totalitarian pitfalls, what may have seemed all but impossible around 1960, has now become way less far-fetched. On the plus side, this paranoia-suffused political thriller is grounded on a premise – from George Axelrod’s 1962 screenplay and Richard Condon’s original 1959 Cold War novel – that remains as engrossing as it was four decades ago.

Screened at the Venice Film Festival, director Jonathan Demme and screenwriters Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris’ The Manchurian Candidate 2004 has kept the framework of John Frankenheimer’s big-screen classic while revamping various plot details to draw parallels between the storyline and current events.

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