The Parallax View (1974)
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Duration: 102 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Stars: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn and Paula Prentiss
IMDb score:
7,1 (25.302)
Releasedate: 14 June 1974
The Parallax View plot
"As American as apple pie."
A journalist and several others witness a political assassination attempt by a deranged loner, or so the official story goes. But when seven of the other witnesses die in the months that follow, the journalist decides to investigate and comes across a network of professionally trained killers, all employees of the Parallax Corporation.
Actors and actresses
Joseph Frady
Lee Carter
Austin Tucker
Jack Younger
Bill Rintels
Sheriff L.D. Wicker
Thomas Richard Linder
Deputy Red
Senator Charles Carroll
Mrs. Charles Carroll
Reviews & comments
FlorisV
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- 1890 messages
- 814 votes
Watched for the second time, it was still captivating. It is a film that wants to tell little and show a lot. So little dialogue and exposition. Sometimes you have to pay close attention to visual cues. It is a distinct style that is intriguing. The typical 70s paranoia works very well. Really exciting at times, no one can be trusted. The main character is in almost continuous danger, but the enemy has no face.
The camera work is sometimes remarkably distant, showing expansive environments, both in the city and beyond or in large buildings, and this is very impressive. Scenes that take place in smaller rooms don't compare very well.
Beatty is fine as a former bulldog reporter who smells his last chance to discover something important.
Certain carvings are sloppy (or done for lack of good images), for example at the dam. You see someone in a completely different angle suddenly holding a gun. With a clumsy action scene after it. The one on the roof at the beginning was like that, really that weird Greco-Roman wrestling of actors who are afraid of hurting each other.
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BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
A disappointing thriller that responds to a paranoia that runs like a thread through American politics: an almost continuous stream of conspiracy theories.
You can expect from a thriller that the tension is slowly but surely increased. This is hardly the case in this film, from which angle (parallax) you look at the plot. The number of exciting moments can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Director Pakula has considerably better films to his credit in my opinion (Klute; All the President's Men).
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Filmkriebel
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- 10326 messages
- 4837 votes
Thought this was a thrilling conspiracy thriller with an unexpected ending. Three years after the brutal murder of a senator, a journalist investigates an organization that recruits killers to carry out political eliminations. Tightly directed by Pakula and with the necessary surprises that I did not see coming at all. Today's filmmakers can learn something from this. A 70s film that scores highly with me.
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