Movie Review: The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Considering that it's Liev week, I simply had to get a Liev movie out of the library. So I got 'The Manchurian Candidate.'

I've never seen the original, so I can't compare the two, but I can give you my review of this one.

I liked it. It's different. Slightly disturbing, but good. It's about an army patrol in the Gulf War that went missing for three days after a battle. Sergeant Raymond Prentiss Shaw (Liev Shreiber) brought the patrol back to safety. Now it's 13 years later and he's running for vice-president. Questions arise as to what really happened, and Major Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) - who was also in that patrol - goes in search of the answers. So then there are all these twists and what-not involving war and politics and brainwashing and stuff.

It seems a little long, but it keeps moving, so it's alright. The acting is very good and the movie drags you in well. I think I didn't realize how much I was being dragged in 'til it was over and I started thinking about it. It was good.

And it has Liev and Denzel, so that's happy.