Develiker terrible... so disappointed.

HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Stephen Bird The New Hollywood era was on a role come 1975 and two of the generations major stars gave decent performances in Three Days of the Condor; Robert Redford was red hot and earning a reputation for himself and Faye Dunaway was very much hot property and in demand. Computers were on the rise around this time and so was intelligence, people were scared about the advancements science and technology were making and were struggling to keep up to speed as the world was drastically changing (Hollywood was no exception), so to build a film around fear whilst utilising the latest gizmos e.g. computers, communication technology etc was a very smart move indeed. The film is filled with technology the CIA and government had at their disposal, nowadays through a modern eye the computers and equipment used in the film look dated and embarrassingly antiquated, but at the time they were revolutionary. Now onto the film itself, it was good..., the cat-and-mouse chase scene revolving around Robert Redford's Condor character were subtle but very tense..., there wasn't so much in the way of chasing as there was one- up-man-ship, the Condor is frantically searching for answers as to who's chasing him and why, and what's actually going on, overly complex and to an untrained mine difficult to digest and understand.Max Von Sydow is the sophisticated, old school style hit-man who supervised the massacre on the Condor's coworkers and is used as the pawn who hunts the Condor down, but who's side is he actually on, and what are his motives?Faye Dunaway does a wonderful job playing the victim who the Condor has to kidnap to help him, she demonstrates vulnerability but at the same time shows a lot of strength too, the sign of a quality actress!Sydney Pollack truly has his roots set in the New Hollywood era and has directed a pretty decent film here, a little on the serious side and nothing in the way of comic relief, best to watch Three Days of the Condor when in a good mood.

Leofwine_draca THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR is one of those classic '70s thrillers that's all about paranoia and the mistrust of government entities. It has the same low key and gritty approach as other '70s greats as MARATHON MAN and SERPICO, and yet as a film it's quite unique, depicting the events in a mature, deeply political way that ignores stock action sequences in favour of surprising character twists and the like. Robert Redford is very well cast as a somewhat ignorant CIA agent who survives the brutal opening massacre sequence (an astonishing sequence) only to go on the wrong as assassins and corrupt agents close in. I could have done without the sub-plot involving Faye Dunaway's extraneous character, but I understand the value of its presence in humanising the main characters. The rest is an solid exercise in film-making, subdued and involving, surprising and engaging. Watch out for Max Von Sydow in one of his best roles.

Andy Howlett It's not often I go above 8 in my scores, but for Three Days of the Condor I'll do it. We've watched this film four times now and it gets better each time. I'm not sure what genre this film fits into - thriller, conspiracy, espionage (probably 70's paranoia) - but it's a fine effort. It's a slow-burner, sets several red-herrings early on and leaves the viewer to make his own way, working out what could be going on rather than being propelled onward by intrusive re-caps and fancy effects. The tension starts early on in the office where Turner finds his colleagues murdered and it never really lets up. As well as a fine performance by Redford, Max von Sydow puts in a chillingly quiet turn as the well-mannered killer. A superb film for discerning viewers, and it has that 'seventies vibe', one of the reasons I watch these films.

writers_reign For most movie buffs still alive the template - innocent man caught up in intrigue and forced to go on the run, somehow gets involved with a woman who goes along with him - was arguably John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps adapted for the screen by Hitchcock in the early thirties, and revisited by Hitchcock via North By North West in the sixties and the basic premise was still working in 1975 in this movie. Okay, a veneer of sophistication has been welded on but it's still innocent man in wrong place at wrong time, fleeing for his life, hooking up with girl who, for no real reason, helps him. This time around it has polish in the shape of support like Cliff Robinson, John Houseman and Max von Sydow and taut helming from Sydney Pollack. In sum: a Bourne movie sans violence.