Film: The Manchurian Candidate (15) Rating . . . .(Features)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: November 19, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Philip Key

DIRECTOR Jonathan Demme (who gave us Silence of the Lambs) provides an equally chilling thriller in The Manchurian Candidate but without the cannibalism.

A remake of the 1960s LaurenceHarvey film, the plot is reset in the first Gulf War and an incident in which a small group of American soldiers came under enemy fire.

Denzil Washington plays a major who escaped, but has flashbacks to the incident which makes him doubt what really...

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