![]() ![]() ![]() This being a seventies pespionage thriller, it isn’t a foreign power that’s behind it all. Naturally, this being an espionage thriller, he finds something he shoudn’t and is targeted for assassination. His job also involves looking through suspicious texts (for example, “a mystery that didn’t sell, being translated into an assortment of different languages”) for codes and cyphers. If there isn’t a department that already does that, there should be. The story essentially sees Robert Redford playing the eponymous Condor, a CIA agent tasked with reading books, helping the Agency “look for new ideas” in fiction, which is a clever idea. However, none of this would really add up to anything if Pollack didn’t have a hook – and he has a great one. In particular, the sets within the CIA – the brightly-coloured meeting rooms, and the maps of the world – look absolutely impressive. #Three days of the condor movieThe movie has a beautiful production design, which seems to recall the rather wonderful bright and vibrant colours we would have seen during the sixties. The colours are more vibrant, the detail is crisp. I rarely go on about the virtues of high definition (as a good film is a good film regardless of screen resolution), but Three Days of the Condor looks absolutely stunning in HD. It’s Pollack’s sense of style that holds the movie together, and in spectacular fashion – simply put, it looks great. From the outset, with a sexy jazz soundtrack, the old Paramount Pictures logo, and Redford’s sideburns, it’s immediately apparent that we’re watching a very seventies thriller. ![]()
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