![]() Īlso included in the one point deduction is the snatching of Elliot Whitter (Robert Walden's character) from the bar where he has just told Robert Caulfield (Elliott Gould's character) about the difference in time in the signals from Capricorn and Caulfield then gets a phone call from someone calling him at the bar and knowing he is a reporter and knowing he'd be at the bar when the call is something just for the Assignment Desk (which means it was something like a local junior high play or something like that. Īnd one point needs to be taken off for silly lapses such as the astronauts talking on the Mars "set" about not going through with the TV broadcast the next day and not having the presence of mind to realize that someone would be listening to them, as the bad guys were of course. a cardboard cutout of him would have more life to it than his effort in this film. ![]() Two points have to be taken off for OJ's acting. It deserves no less than a 7.Īnyone who votes this film lower than a 7 is a pervert! But seriously, this film needs a higher rating. A film which contains such a stunning, depressing, "I no longer trust my government" moment as the final moments of screen time for Sam Waterston doesn't need fan-boy generated Katherine Hepburn screwball comedy dialogue butted up against it. Karen Black's only purpose in the film is to have two conversations with Elliott Gould, where they rattle off mile-a-minute world-weary self-deprecating witticisms at one another (his dialogue with his editor on both occassions is riddled with the stuff, too). However, Hyams' screenplay struggles with a self-imposed tendency to pay corny homage to newspaper films from the '30s. There are moments in the film that rival and even surpass the grim paranoia generated in The Conversation, The Parallax View and All the President's Men, and I feel the film as a whole is better that the totality of Three Days of the Condor. Hyams' obvious nostalgia for the classical Hollywood style (which was on a major nostalgia surge during the '70s) jars badly with the excellent part of the picture - the '70s government conspiracy. ![]() While I agree with most of you, and have championed this film for decades when most reactions to my nonsense are "What? A space movie with OJ? Are you kidding?", there is one major flaw in this little gem.
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