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Cold. Dark. Unsettling. All adjectives that connect Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs to his latest film, The Manchurian Candidate. But where Lambs was thrilling and had great characters in Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter, Manchurian is emotionally unrewarding and has characters that don't leave any lasting impression. While Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep and Liev Schreiber show once again that they are great actors, they didn't make me care for the story at all. The best thing I can say is that it is better than Demme's previous film, The Truth About Charlie.
I give the film a C+, although I'm starting to feel that that's being too generous. And for the record, I have not seen the original film.
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