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Denzel Washington
Liev Schreiber
Jeffrey Wright
Dorian Missick
Pablo Schreiber
Meryl Streep

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The remake to the 1960's classic, this one focuses on the gulf war and how soldiers are brainwashed to think different and do wrong things.

12/11/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Remake ambush

War sucks, dude. There's no Ricki Lake, never enough peanut butter, and your dick can get shot off. Even worse, the enemy might capture you and brainwash you into thinking that the unpopular coward in your platoon saved your life.

This seems to be the case for Capt. Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) in The Manchurian Candidate. Having recommended Sgt. Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) for a medal of honor because of his supposed heroics during the first Gulf War, Marco even lectures to Boy Scouts that Shaw is "the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being" he's ever known. Marco says nothing however, of his frequent nightmares, which portray Shaw in a much different light--one in which Shaw ain't no hero.

Dismissed until now as effects of Gulf War Syndrome, these nightmares gai...

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2/4 

05/06/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

The First Corporate-owned Candidate

Even though I havent seen the original (and to be quite frank, don't plan on it) I wont say that this remake is worthless. I know some will not feel the same as I do. Denzel has done a great job in portraying the lead character, a gulf war vet struck with dreams that counter his actions when he and his troop were ambushed. When certain things are exposed in the film, the line between reality and imagination are BLURRED. The film does a good job of this, leaving you with questions and sort of afraid to get answers.

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3/4