The Manchurian Candidate

Sorry this is so overdue in posting.

Leighton: ***, Mom: ***, Pop: ***
DVD Rental

Leighton:
I had heard pretty good things about this modern retelling of The Manchurian Candidate, but never got around to seeing it until now. As far as remakes go, it's a pretty good one. They found some clever ways to update it for today's technological and political world. Denzel Washington and Liev Schreiber play two Gulf War veterans who are part of a conspiracty to take over the White House.

Pop:
In both versions of The Manchurian Candidate, you have
the common thread of the "brain washing" of soldiers
in the field as part of a longer term plan. In both
cases the objective is the manipulation of our
political process in the election of a president.

In the original 1962 version the conspiracy is part of a "communist plot", where as in the 2004
version the evil perpetrator is a global conglomerate.

Both mom and I give it a *** with your mother's
additional comment that "it was scary within today's
political circumstances."