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Which modern movie is similar to "3 Days of the Condor?" - Dennis S - 07-18-2011
I've seen the Bourne movies, which I liked. I am not a fan of computer graphics and explosions and hate those movies where the camera circles around people. So, a later cerebral suspense movie like Condor is what I'm looking for.
Re: Which modern movie is similar to "3 Days of the Condor?" - Speedy - 07-18-2011
Yes, it was a great movie. And, no, there aren't any like it anymore thanks to CGI.
Re: Which modern movie is similar to "3 Days of the Condor?" - hal - 07-18-2011
Enemy of the State - another avg citizen being tracked down by a vast spy agency. Some people consider this a sequel to 'The Conversation' - much better movie...
I'd certainly recommend the Manchurian Candidate - the un-modern version (although the later version wasn't bad)
Re: Which modern movie is similar to "3 Days of the Condor?" - Blankity Blank - 07-18-2011
Not a movie, but cerebral and with some of the feel of 3 Days of the Condor, Netflx the AMC series Rubicon. Fair warning though, the series didn't get a season two, so it's a case of espionagus interruptus and you'll never know how it ends, but the ride is quite good while it lasts.
Re: Which modern movie is similar to "3 Days of the Condor?" - vision63 - 07-18-2011
There really isn't any. The Cold War paranoia that fueled movies like "The Marathon Man," and such are hard to make these days because either that level of paranoia no longer exists or people really don't fear bureaucratic espionage. I think the movies that try, like "The Informant" and "Good Night and Good Luck" work because they're period pieces. Other movies like "Burn After Reading," work because it mocks.
I love "Condor." Though this is the exact kind of movie that would now have a Steadicam circling the protagonist, a'la Pam Grier's Jackie Brown in the movie of the same name, when she pretended to be afraid in the mall.
Re: Which modern movie is similar to "3 Days of the Condor?" - beagledave - 07-18-2011
There are a few movie recommendation engines out there that might work for you as well
http://www.nanocrowd.com/
suggests The Good Shepherd, Mission Impossible and Body of Lies among other matches.
http://www.jinni.com/
http://www.jinni.com/discovery.html?similarto=three-days-of-the-condor
Re: Which modern movie is similar to "3 Days of the Condor?" - Dennis S - 07-18-2011
I have to tell this anecdote about Condor: The scene where Max von Sydow is in the elevator with Redford and the hit has been called off and he's "harmless" - for some reason, that is one of the creepiest, cold-bloodiest scenes ever.
About a week after I had seen the movie, I was in Stockholm and saw Max von Sydow walking toward me on the sidewalk. It scared the crap out of me. He looked just like he did in the movie. I asked my friend if I had just seen him or someone who looked like him. She said she saw him pretty often in Stockholm.
Anyway, he's one of the scariest characters in a movie I have seen.
Re: Which modern movie is similar to "3 Days of the Condor?" - hal - 07-18-2011
here's one I saw just last night - can't believe I didn't think of it before
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch (aka Largo Winch)
a rippin story - euro-action movie in several languages - about 1/2 is english.
super rich guy is murdered so his privately held mega-company can be more easily knocked off in a hostile takeover. BUT super rich guy had a plan all along - an adopted son that has been in hiding all of his life... until now! Of course, super mega rich folks want him DEAD and have all of the resources in the world top make it happen...
sequel was just released: The Burma Conspiracy aka Largo Winch (Tome 2)
Re: Which modern movie is similar to "3 Days of the Condor?" - davester - 07-18-2011
Dennis S wrote: The scene where Max von Sydow is in the elevator with Redford and the hit has been called off and he's "harmless" - for some reason,
Maybe you need to watch it again. He had not been called off, and was not harmless at that point in the movie.
Re: Which modern movie is similar to "3 Days of the Condor?" - vision63 - 07-18-2011
davester wrote:
[quote=Dennis S] The scene where Max von Sydow is in the elevator with Redford and the hit has been called off and he's "harmless" - for some reason,
Maybe you need to watch it again. He had not been called off, and was not harmless at that point in the movie.
Probably too scared from that experience to watch it over.