Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Stephen Bird The New Hollywood era was on a role come 1975 and two of the generations major stars gave decent performances in Three Days of the Condor; Robert Redford was red hot and earning a reputation for himself and Faye Dunaway was very much hot property and in demand. Computers were on the rise around this time and so was intelligence, people were scared about the advancements science and technology were making and were struggling to keep up to speed as the world was drastically changing (Hollywood was no exception), so to build a film around fear whilst utilising the latest gizmos e.g. computers, communication technology etc was a very smart move indeed. The film is filled with technology the CIA and government had at their disposal, nowadays through a modern eye the computers and equipment used in the film look dated and embarrassingly antiquated, but at the time they were revolutionary. Now onto the film itself, it was good..., the cat-and-mouse chase scene revolving around Robert Redford's Condor character were subtle but very tense..., there wasn't so much in the way of chasing as there was one- up-man-ship, the Condor is frantically searching for answers as to who's chasing him and why, and what's actually going on, overly complex and to an untrained mine difficult to digest and understand.Max Von Sydow is the sophisticated, old school style hit-man who supervised the massacre on the Condor's coworkers and is used as the pawn who hunts the Condor down, but who's side is he actually on, and what are his motives?Faye Dunaway does a wonderful job playing the victim who the Condor has to kidnap to help him, she demonstrates vulnerability but at the same time shows a lot of strength too, the sign of a quality actress!Sydney Pollack truly has his roots set in the New Hollywood era and has directed a pretty decent film here, a little on the serious side and nothing in the way of comic relief, best to watch Three Days of the Condor when in a good mood.

writers_reign For most movie buffs still alive the template - innocent man caught up in intrigue and forced to go on the run, somehow gets involved with a woman who goes along with him - was arguably John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps adapted for the screen by Hitchcock in the early thirties, and revisited by Hitchcock via North By North West in the sixties and the basic premise was still working in 1975 in this movie. Okay, a veneer of sophistication has been welded on but it's still innocent man in wrong place at wrong time, fleeing for his life, hooking up with girl who, for no real reason, helps him. This time around it has polish in the shape of support like Cliff Robinson, John Houseman and Max von Sydow and taut helming from Sydney Pollack. In sum: a Bourne movie sans violence.

Steven Torrey A carnage of six people in a CIA covert operation for some obscure reason that simply doesn't hold water as justification by the end of the movie. And the audience is somehow asked to believe that professional assassin Jourbet/Max Von Snydow, who would have shot Turner/Redford had he been present, is now Redford's savior by the end of the movie, a plot twist with the barest of motivation.But hey, it works. It worked in 1975 when it first came out and still works in 2016 with repeated viewings.I thought way back then when I first saw this, that it is an extension of the closing line from Moby Dick; "I alone survived"... Or in the case of Turner/Redford: I survived ALONE.... Turner ends up being the spy left in the cold, never to be redeemed. He has betrayed the CIA by ferreting out its duplicity and demonic ways and the CIA has betrayed him, by letting him live while his colleagues died as martyrs to the CIA.Kathy Hale/Fay Dunaway and her photographic artwork portraying isolation, provides an interesting sub-plot to emphasize the major theme.And at the end, Higgins point becomes part of the CIA's betrayal of Turner; even if it was printed, would anyone believe, or care? The movie still works after all these years, and it works because it is about that existential loneliness that is the bane of many a life. The suspense leads to a surprising existential moment for a conclusion.

jadavix Political thrillers were hot in the '70s, I guess because the nation was recovering from Watergate in '72 and wondering what else the government might be keeping from them. This one is even eerily prescient and not a mere time capsule in that the conspiracy it entails involves a plan - floated as a possibility in 1975 - to invade Arabic states on the pretense of warfare when really seeking oil. One day, the mastermind explains, oil shortages will cause a crisis for the American economy.One day...The movie is also a classic thriller. The tension is tangible in many places, Redford is ideally cast as the bookish but resourceful CIA office worker and Max Von Sydow is terrifying.The only misstep is Dunaway, who just doesn't look that comfortable in her role. She doesn't look like a lonely photographer: she looks like a movie star playing a lonely photographer.For more classic thrillers of this time period, see the also underrated Parallax View, and of course the jewel in the crown, All the President's Men, which also starred Robert Redford.