![]() The smart, gripping script has been reworked from both Richard Condon's Cold War novel, in which an American soldier was brainwashed to carry out assassinations via hypnotic suggestion, and scripter George Axelrod's sophisticated, faithful adaptation of the 1962 John Frankenheimer film starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Angela Lansbury (who stole the picture as Harvey's memorably monstrous mother although she was only three years older than him). ![]() So it's exciting to see an apparently re-energised Jonathan Demme coming back at us with his best feature since The Silence Of The Lambs, a cracking conspiracy thriller that's well-cast, slyly satirical and - as a solid, glossy, contemporised remix of a classic - rings enough creepy changes to surprise. Remakes of celebrated films invite disaster.
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