Whilst this is not technically sci-fi, it deals with themes of mind control which are an important sci-fi theme

The Manchurian candidate:

[quote]When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco (Denzel Washington), was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened, or indeed didn't happen, in Iraq.

Searching for peace from his nightmares, Marco discovers that Shaw's story is beginning to unravel; whatever the truth, the sinister Manchurian Global corporation is desperate to prevent him finding it...[/quote]

Says play.com

Uh correct me if I'm wrong but in the old version, they were taken across the Manchurian border and brainwahed, that is the damn namesake of the film!

This film sounds like a pale and very distorted version of the concept. The whole plote replacced. The Manchurian candidate, the original. was a well produced film which produced a warning which echoed even till now. How dare they piss on it like that. They missed the point, the soldier was not the candidate, he was PROGRAMMED to kill an opposing candidate to allow communists to have a puppet leader in Washington.

What views does everyone have on what was, once, a brillient piece of cinema?
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