Actors: Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Note: Very Minor Spoilers Ahead
These days, action movies have a shorter and shorter window to be exciting. What I mean is, movies have to wow you in the first hour or so, because they're likely not going to surprise you near the end. The Parallax View concludes with an incredible setpiece where everyone's fate is legitimately questionable. It's not a great film, but a jaunty one - over in only 100 minutes where a modern film about this subject would be at least 130. As such, it does feel like it leaves the viewer wanting a little more exposition.
It's amazing how outdated the ideas in this film are - Cold War paranoia, assassinations, journalism being a really important profession. At one point our protagonist buys a plane ticket on the actual plane. Considering our shadow organizations now operate behind computer terminals, it's difficult to make paranoia cinematic these days, but at least we'll always have The Parallax View.
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