The 21st century post modern Parallax View? A little more love interests a bit more of a buddy picture, some absurd weirdness. Its fun, its exciting, it even has a bit of a relationship with history. The only issue is that it is so busy doing these other things, it doesn’t take its subject matter seriously. It was having too much fun riffing off the Big Sleep et al to take it self seriously. Some historian down the road will say the real life incident this is based on and Eisenhower’s famous speech about the ‘Military Industrial Complex’, couldn’t people see it coming? But Russell decided to go camp. Good film but questionable choice.
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