Kandidaten fra Manchuriet

Don't bother with Jonathan Demme's toothless 2004 remake; the rereleased classic cold war thriller from 1962 by John Frankenheimer packs a harder punch.

Det er en frisk og fornuftigt opdatering af plottet, som gør filmen højaktuel i et valgår, hvor kandidaternes metoder konstant var til debat.

...Demme has taken a story we thought we knew and, while making its outlines mostly recognizable, rotated it into another dimension of conspiracy.

Impressively accomplished and highly entertaining, with sufficiently smart new twists to keep you guessing all the way to the nerve-wracking climax.

...timeliness, psychological complexity, sociopolitical acumen, and almost frightening conviction.