Three Days of the Condor

Paramount Pictures | Release Date: September 24, 1975

7.3	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 30 Ratings

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amheretojudgeMar 1, 2019

An In And Out Inn.

Three Days Of Condor Pollack has been into romance before anything. Even in a story of crime, betrayal and mystery like such, he cannot help himself lean towards crafting out a love story. And as we all can see in here,An In And Out Inn.

Three Days Of Condor

Pollack has been into romance before anything. Even in a story of crime, betrayal and mystery like such, he cannot help himself lean towards crafting out a love story. And as we all can see in here, most probably this is his major asset. Not a witty film but a superficial one, not satisfying but soothing. As far as the thrills are concerned, they come in cheap. With only its first act, delivering and respecting the genre the film claims to be, the tone shifting in its latter acts is something that is not easy to nod along with.

The sense of urgency that Sydney Pollack; the director, wants us to feel is one big jolt of exhilarating dose that we wolfishly mug up and later regret on. He is of, course, no short on execution, his keen eye on details that sets and maps the room or a location in viewers' mind helps a lot in such a film. The physical sequences is another example, with multiple camera shots, the action is fast, cleaner than we usually get and well choreographed.

Turner (Robert Redford) as the victim of the film and being framed by bigger banners is on a run or so you would think. Since that run goes on halt after he meets Kathy (Faye Dunaway) and the appealing sensual love angle swoops in on storytelling. The mellow impactful moments shared by these two stars is something we can all devour with ease, if lopping off all the other drama and strings, the love story had enough potential to stand alone, but unfortunately this who-done-it case fumbles in its last act poorly. Three Days Of The Condor might be a shorter stay than in the novel it is adapted from, but then it also feels longer at times.… Expand

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Kai82Dec 25, 2022

An interesting thriller / spy movie. It is the story of Joe Turner who works for the CIA. However he is no agent as he and his colleagues just read books, magazines, novels and newspapers for ideas, potential dangers and risks. However whenAn interesting thriller / spy movie. It is the story of Joe Turner who works for the CIA. However he is no agent as he and his colleagues just read books, magazines, novels and newspapers for ideas, potential dangers and risks. However when Joe returns one day to the office after getting lunch for everyone he end s in a real nightmare. All his colleagues are murdered and he has no clue why. This is the start of a cat and mouse game as he does not know who he can trust, what has happened and atop of that has no real training that can help him (He is an analyst not a spy or agent). I like the story a lot because as viewer you have the same questions as the protagonist. Also the struggles, twists and story are as immersive as entertaining. A bonus for the interesting ending but also a warning as I can see others hate this. Aside the story a lot of my enjoyment came from the strong cast. We have a strong performance from Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow and Cliff Robertson. They fully deliver their roles and improve the movie. Other than that I see no serious weaknesses. Overall this was a nice movie with a good mystery and great actors. Also it is realistic enough that I question myself if something similar can happen in real life. I give an 8/10 and recommend it for being something different that the trope of the unmatched special agent like James Bond, Jason Bourne or all the others. Bonus knowledge: It is based on the book “Six days of the Condor” by James Grady which is different enough to be worth reading. Actually the movie could be the rare case were they changed the plot to a more original idea.… Expand

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