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The Not So Lone Gunman is Revealed
After the Warren Commission report came out, Hollywood decided to make films on their theory of the Kennedy assassination. This is disguised version of that. Joe Brady (Warren Beatty) is a second rate reporter for a third rate Seattle newspaper. A prominent Senator is making his bid for President at the Seattle Spaceneedle but is murdered by a pair of gunmen. One by one everyone at the event dies. The deaths are reasonable but the coincidence is not. When a friend of Joe's comes up dead, Joe decides to look into her conspiracy theory. <
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>Joe goes to a remote fishing village where a Judge drowned. It was obvious that there was something more to the drowning than meets the eye. When the Sheriff tries to kill Joe, it becomes evident that he killed the judge. Joe goes to the sheriff's home and discovers documents lead him to the Parallax Corporation. <
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>Next Joe goes to find one of the few living witnesses to the assassination, Austin Tucker (William Daniels). Austin takes Joe out on his yacht. During the trip a bomb explodes and kills all on board. Well that's what everyone thinks. Joe was blown off the boat and survived. <
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>Joe now focuses on the Parallax Corp. He figures out that they are recruiting assassins and tries to get recruited by them. While out at their offices he sees a familiar face and follows him to the airport. The only thing is that the man does not get on the plane but another political candidate is on the plane. Joe realizes that the man planted a bomb on the plane. <
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>Upon Joe's return, he is given his first Parallax mission. Joe sabotages his mission and goes back to the Parallax Corp where he sees the man again and follows him to the convention center. Another political figure is holding a rehearsal for his fundraiser. Joe sees a rifle. He realizes that another assassination is going to happen but it is too late. <
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>This is an interesting film but fairly unrealistic. The interesting thing about the film is how to interpret what happens with Joe. Is he a good reporter or was he set up from the beginning? This and other questions are deliberately not answered. <
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>This is the first of Alan J Pakula's political films that include Three Days of the Condor and the Oscar winning All the President's Men. The cast is top rate mostly up and coming or established character actors. Hume Cronyn gives a great performance as Joe's editor. <
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>This is a good watch and would recommend either of Pakula's other two films mentioned to make it a double feature or another film that looks at the Kennedy assassination, Executive Action. <
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Beware, brother, beware . . .
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>Paranoids and conspiracy theorists unite: here's a movie you've gotta love. Warren Beatty plays a reporter who goes undercover to investigate a senator's death after a dozen or so witnesses to the event have also died. He believes the Parallax Corporation is a secret assassination organization; he becomes a member little realizing he's being set up as the fall-guy for the next big assassination. The movie is gripping most of the way through, though it unfortunately goes a little soft near the end. The movie caters to our most paranoid instincts: characters are vaguely developed; images are partially obscured behind curtains or windows; around every corner we expect to discover SOMETHING important, but it's never quite there, having somehow just escaped our attention. Thus the tension builds and the mind begins concocting what it can't fathom for sure. Maybe. Maybe it's all for real, too. The director wanted us to draw parallels between his movie and the Kennedy assassination in Dallas, and for some the results were conclusive: don't look behind you, someone for sure is following you. It's a pretty good movie, worth a watch.

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the parallax view is a great paranoid thriller from the watergate era
when this movie came out the watergate scandle was in full bloom and no one trusted the goverment anymore, i mean the president was make up the rules as he went along and that was one reason that all the thrillers of that time are so paranoid. <
> in this film beatty plays a reporter(at the time almost all the heros were reporters because we though that they were the only people we could trust) who along with other reporters sees a senator assassinated and soon notices that all the people who saw it are dieing in "accidents". now in fera of his life beatty must find out what is going on and what the parallax corp. has to do with this and other deaths and assassinatens. <
> once he starts to look into in we quickly see that our man is in way over his head and is now a prime target himself and it looks like he's being framed for something. this is really a great movie and the ending is part of that great 70's beleaf that the little man stood no chance aganist the "big boy" of wealth and power. if you like some meat in your thrillers this one is for you!