Sorry, this movie sucks

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

THE PARALLAX VIEW is another gripping conspiracy thriller from the decade that made so many of them. Warren Beatty plays a crusading reporter investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of his peers, deaths which may or may not be connected to the murder of a politician at which he was present a few years previously. This film is different from the others I've watched, far less complex in terms of plot. It's very much a visual experience which reaches a high in a montage of imagery which attempts to get across what it feels like to be brainwashed. Beatty is a solid lead and there are some good supporting players like Anthony Zerbe and Hume Cronyn, while the level of suspense and paranoia is high. There are also some great set-pieces, particularly early on, with the only let down being the bit where they don't have the money to show a plane exploding. The film's air of ambiguity helps a treat too.

I found myself rolling my eyes 10 minutes into this movie as it unimaginatively rolled out every conspiracy-theory movie formula from the 70s. The direction and editing are uneven, to be charitable. Warren Beatty, as usual, poses more than he acts. Some of the more effective scenes of Beatty's character pretending to be recruited by the shadowy Parallax Corporation are fairly tense and effective, but are quickly overwhelmed by plodding, predictable nonsense.This may have been a good made-for-TV movie at the time, but not much more. Like so many conspiracy movies, the mounting implausible characters and plot details eventually lead to this being an unintended comedy.If you want good, engrossing and even plausible conspiracy movies, just go buy or rent "The Manchurian Candidate" again (the original, not the silly remake, which wasted a terrific performance by Meryl Streep).

An ambitious reporter (Warren Beatty) gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.This is not a well-known thriller, even with Beatty leading the way. I would speculate part of the reason is the title, which does not lend itself to being easily remembered. Even after seeing the film and understanding the significance, it does not seem the best choice o really grab someone's attention.But anyway, lots of action and twists and turns. Some mystery. And a great big conspiracy that is pretty much impossible, but for the sake of a good story is worth suspending your disbelief for.

The golden age of modern filmmaking, the seventies bore witness to the cinematic rise of a cabal of influential and often audacious young filmmakers. Alan J. Pakula was one such individual. His work is utterly and bleakly unique. The worlds his characters inhabit are devoid of mundane truths or realities. NOTHING is as it seems. Every situation. no matter how seemingly ordinary, has an undercurrent of conspiracy or menace roiling just below it's banal facade. The Parallax View is a letter-perfect snap-shot of this societal morass and the era that produced it. It's characters are burned-out, sixties idealists, running on the fumes of the failed counter-culture revolution. Pakula and his peers understood this ALL too well, and their jaded, cynical approach to filmmaking was their one common trait.