Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

SunnyHello Nice effects though.

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

alexanderdavies-99382 "The Parallax View" is the kind of film that gave some American citizens cause to question the so-called "American Dream" via their distrust of their own government, entering a war in which America had no business, race riots, President Nixon being exposed for what he really was etc. The above film is a far superior political thriller in comparison to the same director's later film, "All the President's Men." "The Parallax View" is actually a powerful and quite disturbing film about the efforts of one journalist (Warren Beatty) who investigates supposedly accidental deaths which are all linked to the events that unfold at the beginning of the film. Little does Warren Beatty realise the sheer magnitude and complexity of what he is taking on. He gradually becomes rather isolated from the outside world as his search for the truth makes him realise that not all is what it appears to be..... The photography, direction, script and the music are all first class. The acting is good as well. Watch this and be prepared to be entertained to the very end. This is easily one of the best films to come out of American 1970s cinema.

Jon Corelis This slow-moving but intense, stylish, visually sumptuous political thriller directed by Alan Pakula (best known for Klute, All the Presients Men, and and Sophie's Choice) somehow combines a preternatural clarity with a misty dissonance: it's like someone shattered the 1960s political assassinations and jumbled them together into a dream. Warren Beatty is great as the callow but dedicated reporter whose curiosity gets him in waters farther over his head (on some occasions literally) than he could have imagined. Several of the film's aspects are, and are probably intended to be, reminiscent of Hitchcock: the way things and people are not as they seem, and a final explosion of menace in the cheerful public environment of a political rally. One of the key films in the political conspiracy theory genre.

bkoganbing If you are given to conspiracy theories than you should look no further than The Parallax View which goes way over the top in saying that all the assassinations in that spate of them and also attempts were the product of one group of secret conspirators who are our permanent government. The extremes should love this film from the John Birch Society to the WikiLeaks fans.Warren Beatty is a reporter for a Seattle newspaper and is on the scene of an assassination of a U.S. Senator and presidential candidate at the Space Needle. By the way talk about a place with no possible getaway.A few years later Paula Prentiss comes to him scared out of her mind in that several witnesses of said assassination are becoming dead themselves. Shades of the Warren Report. Beatty investigates further and finds an outfit called the Parallax Corporation which seems to be looking for loner types who can be manipulated. The image of Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan etc. Seems like our assassins seem to be cut from the same mold.What can I say, but Beatty becomes a victim of his own story.I saw The Parallax View when it came out in theater years ago. It's still for the paranoid minded among us. I think it's a way bit much, but who knows with today's news and our president considered a Moscow stealth candidate.Stranger things have happened.

millerman378 The golden age of modern filmmaking, the seventies bore witness to the cinematic rise of a cabal of influential and often audacious young filmmakers. Alan J. Pakula was one such individual. His work is utterly and bleakly unique. The worlds his characters inhabit are devoid of mundane truths or realities. NOTHING is as it seems. Every situation. no matter how seemingly ordinary, has an undercurrent of conspiracy or menace roiling just below it's banal facade. The Parallax View is a letter-perfect snap-shot of this societal morass and the era that produced it. It's characters are burned-out, sixties idealists, running on the fumes of the failed counter-culture revolution. Pakula and his peers understood this ALL too well, and their jaded, cynical approach to filmmaking was their one common trait.