The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate (2004) is a film where there is an army group of soldiers that get ambushed while on a recon in Kuwait. The actors that starred in the film were Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. They all remember the incident but then start to get these weird dreams about the event and it all starts coming back to them. He begins to remember that they all gave the same exact description of the incident which gave Raymond Shaw (Liev) the prestigious Medal of Honour. But it turns out the Raymond got infected as well and now he becomes and unwilling assassin for the Communist party since he is part of a powerful political family. Will they be able to uncover the truth behind what really happened in Kuwait or is it all just a dream?
Now to be honest, when i first saw the beginning 5 minutes of the film i thought that this would be a boring political film about the army and blah blah blah. But it was actually quite good. The storyline was well presented, the was always the feeling that what they were doing to the soldiers was just a dream so it always kept the audience guessing at the same time and that during the storyline everyone assumed that Ben Marco was crazy.  As well as the disgusting bit where Eleanor Shaw has sex with her own son (Ewwwww!). Even though i haven't seen the older version of the film, i do like this version because it has futuristic features in it but yet it is set in the past. This more recent film didn't get the best of ratings out of ten, only getting 7.1 which isn't that bad but i would expect that it would have at least gotten an eight.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is an American Cold War suspense film which stars Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh and Laurence Harvey. The storyline of the film is set around the time of Korean war. The storyline is of course the same as the recent film that i have explained before except that in the recent film, Meryl Streep has a much bigger role in the film than Janet Leigh because in the older films women weren't given big roles and men were the main people in the story. I don't really have much to say about the older version since i haven't actually seen all of the film so all i can say and hope for is that the original version is as good as the more recent version.