NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Catherina If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Martin Bradley One of the best of all conspiracy theory movies and a brilliant political thriller, "The Parallax View" came from a time in the mid-seventies when American cinema appeared to have reached a peak in providing intelligent, grown-up entertainments that were both fun to watch and which required bringing your brain into the cinema with you rather than leaving it in the foyer with the popcorn. It begins with a political assassination on top of Seattle's Space Needle. At this stage the audience doesn't have apply any guesswork; we can see the set up. We can see the killing of the apparent assassin and we can see the real assassin get away.Step forward three years to a grubby Warren Beatty, who was there that day working as a reporter and who is now being ed by another reporter, (Paula Prentiss in a tight cameo), who was also there and now fears for her life. It seems almost anyone who was there at the time is already dead; cue Warren off to uncover the truth. If the plot feels reasonably predictable, the treatment is superb. Alan J Pakula was the director, working from a screenplay by David Giler and Lorenzo Semple Jr and the great Gordon Willis was the cinematographer, working a lot more in the light for a change and there's an excellent ing turn from Hume Cronyn as Beatty's editor and a brilliant one from the underrated William McGinn as the guy tasked with recruiting assassins. There's a twist in the tale you will probably see coming but it doesn't lessen the effect. As I said, this is a smart piece of multiplex entertainment from a time when movies like this were commonplace. Those, as they say, were the days.

jimbo-53-186511 Joseph Frady (Warren Beatty) is an investigative journalist who is tipped off that the assassination of a senator 3 years ago may have involved more than one person. As he delves deeper, Frady soon learns that several reporters present at the assassination are also dying in suspicious circumstances and learns that all these people are being targeted by the Parallax Corporation - a corporation who specialises in recruiting assassins. Determined to expose this organisation, Frady makes the bold decision to enrol in the Parallax Corporation.Dubbed as one of the films in Pakula's so called 'Political Paranoia Trilogy' The Parallax View is, for me, the lesser of the 3 films in this trilogy - the other two films being Klute and All The President's Men. The opening sequence is impressive and it's nice to see one of America's lesser known landmarks - the Seattle Space Needle playing an important role in the film. It's a shame really that after the impressive opening sequence that Pakula chooses to take his foot off the gas and turns most of the film into a rather dull and talkative affair with very little actually going on. Even when Pakula does show something actually happening he still had a tendency to draw some scenes out for way too long. Two examples of this are the scene where Frady has a fight in the pub which just seemed to go on forever, came out of nowhere, and made absolutely no sense. The second overlong sequence was when Frady was at Parallax Corporation bootcamp and they are showing him their 'training video'. That particular sequence ran for about 10 minutes with many of the same clips being replayed again and again and again. Why??? It just made me cringe.Another problem I had with this film was Warren Beatty; part of the problem lay with his rather lifeless performance and it also didn't help that his Joe Frady had no discernible character. As a thriller it wasn't particularly thrilling and never really gripped me and the investigative aspect doesn't get enough focus for one to become truly vested in the story.There are one or two good parts in the film and I did like the way that the film did at least have a rather non conformist Hollywood ending. However, these things are not enough to save this film and despite the fact that it only runs to just beyond 90 minutes I still found myself bored to tears watching it and was praying for it to end.

bkoganbing If you are given to conspiracy theories than you should look no further than The Parallax View which goes way over the top in saying that all the assassinations in that spate of them and also attempts were the product of one group of secret conspirators who are our permanent government. The extremes should love this film from the John Birch Society to the WikiLeaks fans.Warren Beatty is a reporter for a Seattle newspaper and is on the scene of an assassination of a U.S. Senator and presidential candidate at the Space Needle. By the way talk about a place with no possible getaway.A few years later Paula Prentiss comes to him scared out of her mind in that several witnesses of said assassination are becoming dead themselves. Shades of the Warren Report. Beatty investigates further and finds an outfit called the Parallax Corporation which seems to be looking for loner types who can be manipulated. The image of Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan etc. Seems like our assassins seem to be cut from the same mold.What can I say, but Beatty becomes a victim of his own story.I saw The Parallax View when it came out in theater years ago. It's still for the paranoid minded among us. I think it's a way bit much, but who knows with today's news and our president considered a Moscow stealth candidate.Stranger things have happened.

oOoBarracuda Alan J. Pakula's 1974 film, The Parallax View was a film that I had wanted to see for some time. A national election year was the perfect backdrop for me to finally make time for The Parallax View. Warren Beatty stars alongside Paula Prentiss as a reckless reporter who will do anything to uncover a story, even if it puts his life in danger. Pakula's mastery for the political thriller has cemented The Parallax View as a longstanding classic that will certainly not be sured anytime soon.Upon the assassination of Senator Charles Carroll (William Joyce), of which Joseph Frady (Warren Beatty) witnessed, several other witnesses are being murdered. The official story was that the Senator was killed by a lone gunman who was also killed at the scene. Lee Carter (Paula Prentiss), a reporter who is now fearing for her life in light of the murders of the media personnel who witnessed the assassination, believes a conspiracy to be in the works. Seeking refuge and , Carter goes to her ex-lover and possible target, Joe Frady. Joe brushes Lee off, however, not believing in the conspiracy himself, and sends her away with futile reassurance. As the death total mounts, however, Frady begins to believe in the conspiracy and begins his own investigation as to who is behind the murders. An uncontrolled reporter with a reputation for irresponsibility, Frady is not taken seriously as he follows leads. The more he uncovers, the more Frady understands that the conspiracy reaches higher than he could have imagined. Providing false names at every , Frady begins a race to reveal the identity of the perpetrator before his own identity is revealed. If Frady loses this race, it will surely mean the end of his life.Let me quickly get out of the way the observation that Warren Beatty was a classic-cool, ruggedly handsome man, even when he was intended to look disheveled and sloppy. Pakula is really a master of the political thriller. Having seen All the President's Men, also by Pakula, earlier this month I can say, without a doubt, that he possessed mastery in this sub-genre. The camera angles Pakula used were perfect for heightening the intensity of the story. Pakula also utilizes long shots in a brilliant way. Many key conversations take place using a long shot, with an obstruction in front of the camera; the partially blocked camera views are pure brilliance, as it really drives home the notion that we are witnessing something that we are not supposed to. The pacing was a bit slow through the second act, which is largely forgivable since we get to witness Pakula orchestrating the perfect set-up. Watching Frady fall into the nefarious agency's trap was reminiscent of the tour through the plant in Soylent Green, and just as sinister. Pakula ends his thriller in a perfect way that shows the never ending cycle of the political corruption in which no citizen can escape from.