DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Benas Mcloughlin Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

alexanderdavies-99382 "The Parallax View" is the kind of film that gave some American citizens cause to question the so-called "American Dream" via their distrust of their own government, entering a war in which America had no business, race riots, President Nixon being exposed for what he really was etc. The above film is a far superior political thriller in comparison to the same director's later film, "All the President's Men." "The Parallax View" is actually a powerful and quite disturbing film about the efforts of one journalist (Warren Beatty) who investigates supposedly accidental deaths which are all linked to the events that unfold at the beginning of the film. Little does Warren Beatty realise the sheer magnitude and complexity of what he is taking on. He gradually becomes rather isolated from the outside world as his search for the truth makes him realise that not all is what it appears to be..... The photography, direction, script and the music are all first class. The acting is good as well. Watch this and be prepared to be entertained to the very end. This is easily one of the best films to come out of American 1970s cinema.

valleycapfan I found myself rolling my eyes 10 minutes into this movie as it unimaginatively rolled out every conspiracy-theory movie formula from the 70s. The direction and editing are uneven, to be charitable. Warren Beatty, as usual, poses more than he acts. Some of the more effective scenes of Beatty's character pretending to be recruited by the shadowy Parallax Corporation are fairly tense and effective, but are quickly overwhelmed by plodding, predictable nonsense.This may have been a good made-for-TV movie at the time, but not much more. Like so many conspiracy movies, the mounting implausible characters and plot details eventually lead to this being an unintended comedy.If you want good, engrossing and even plausible conspiracy movies, just go buy or rent "The Manchurian Candidate" again (the original, not the silly remake, which wasted a terrific performance by Meryl Streep).

millerman378 The golden age of modern filmmaking, the seventies bore witness to the cinematic rise of a cabal of influential and often audacious young filmmakers. Alan J. Pakula was one such individual. His work is utterly and bleakly unique. The worlds his characters inhabit are devoid of mundane truths or realities. NOTHING is as it seems. Every situation. no matter how seemingly ordinary, has an undercurrent of conspiracy or menace roiling just below it's banal facade. The Parallax View is a letter-perfect snap-shot of this societal morass and the era that produced it. It's characters are burned-out, sixties idealists, running on the fumes of the failed counter-culture revolution. Pakula and his peers understood this ALL too well, and their jaded, cynical approach to filmmaking was their one common trait.

arturomeade This movie is as bad as most T.V. series of that time, the worse Columbo plot is a master piece compare to this movie (with all my respect to Columbo). The film is naive, full of holes and unnecessary scenes of flying cars and fights type Starsky and Hutch. The movie start as a bad action film then suddenly turns "dark" "experimental" and "intelligent". The acting and production are as bad as can be, in fact is so bad that is almost enjoyable as a comic film. Unless you are on the mood for a bad bad movie this is not worth to watch. If you are fan of The Charlie Angels, or The million dollar man you are gonna love it.