Perfectly adorable

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Great actors and director. One of the most sexy scenes in film history, and without explicit images needed, Redford and Dunaway. That is Greatness. Fun to watch Max Von Sydow as well. BEAUTIFUL, MAGNIFICENT movie.

No one can make a suspenseful political movie in the 1970s like Robert Redford can! If you liked All the President's Men or a slightly older Redford in Truth, add Three Days of the Condor to your list this weekend.In this one, he plays an analyst for the CIA. He turns in a seemingly innocuous report, but soon afterwards, everyone in his office gets killed. He tries to reach out to the CIA for protection, but finds out no one can be trusted and nowhere is safe. . .Besides that slightly cheesy plot description, there's really nothing cheesy about this political thriller. It's not an action comedy; you're not going to hear Robert Redford cracking jokes after killing someone. This is a strict drama, with tensions mounting slowly like a modern-day Hitchcock movie. And, in true 70s style, there's lots of fluffy hairdos, aviator sunglasses, mustaches, and Faye Dunaway. Also, I'm not going to give anything away, but Cliff Robertson's famous social commentary speech is from this movie—in case you've seen that clip on TV or during a political film montage. This is the kind of movie that will make you think, and it's just as relevant today as it was forty years ago.

"Three Days of the Condor" is everything that "All the President's Men" isn't. The above film is actually gripping, exciting and well made in all areas. The character of Robert Redford in this film is more vulnerable due to the fact that he isn't a trained operative for the C.I.A but an ordinary book keeper for them instead. You wouldn't expect him to last five minutes against particularly dangerous opponents from the Agency. However, Redford manages to find his courage and determination by remaining barely one step ahead of the enemy. It is a tale of a conspiracy from within. The suspense is maintained very effectively by Sydney Pollack. Max Von Sydow makes for a brilliant assassin who coolly seeks Robert Redford at every turn. The running time races by as the film keeps a good pace. The dialogue is well above average. Don't miss this one.

Sydney Pollock's venture into conspiracy thriller after Watergate scandal, in NYC, an erudite CIA analyser Joe Turner (Redford), codename condor, by sheer luck, escapes from a slaughter when he sneaks out to buy lunch for his colleagues, all six, being cold-bloodedly shot dead by armed men in an efficient raid in their office, including his Asian girlfriend Janice (Chen).In the handsomely structured opening gambit, Pollock proficiently alternates his shots between a leisurely atmosphere in Turner's office, it is just another working day, and the impending danger outside in the raining, where a sullen-looking stranger, later discovered as a freelance assassin Mr. Jounert (von Sydow) and his sidekicks, minutely observe the situations and single out the names on the roster in order not to leave out any target in the ensuing action. That's also why it rings hollow when they fail to notice Turner's absence. But soon, Turner will announce his miraculous survival through his call to the CIA headquarter, which certainly will alert both his allies and enemies inside the system. He gets through another assassination while the number of casualties keeps rising.Yes, Faye Dunaway is second-billed here and is nominated for a Golden Globe in LEADING ACTRESS, DRAMA, presumably her character Kathy Hale would have played a more substantial role in the plot, but, the truth is, it is a glamorised supporting role, Kathy is a random hostage Turner picks after his bad day - witnessing a bloodletting crime scene and narrowly surviving a gunfire in close range. They stay together in her apartment, a stock sink for incubating Stockholm syndrome, there is no way a picture has two sexiest film stars in their prime, would not sex them up, no matter how implausible or inconvenient the context is. So, the duly romance sparks (their sex scenes are crosscut with the wintry and bleak pictures Kathy take, suggest that they are kindred spirits who can profoundly understand each other), but unfortunately undercuts the suspenseful tempo which has been slowly but consistently building thus far, including a crack elevator face-off between Turner and Journet.A paralleled subplot unfolds in front of viewers, Mr. Higgins (Robertson), the deputy director of CIA's New York Division, comes on board to deal with the condor incident, routinely meets up with higher dignitaries who are by default, candidates for viewers to conjecture, which one is the culprit behind the heinous crime and an even bigger question mark, why? This is where the story goes a tad convoluted, evasive, idealised for its own sake, inevitably, it doesn't cohere engagingly as a thriller, maybe more in line with Alan J. Pakula's ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976) as a political drama.Outsmarts yet another professional assassin in the next morning, Turner proves that he is not only saved by a stroke of luck, he has true grits for fieldwork too, and by that time an empathetic Kathy has been completely under his spell, and agrees to help him to set up a meeting with Higgins. In the following steps, the pace tellingly sags and the suspense barely registers, both Turner and Higgins will respectively approach closer and closer to the truth through the lead of Jounert, but can they end up in friendly terms despite of their radical chasm about a country perturbed by paranoia and skepticism?THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR, condensed from a six-day span in its source novel to a tauter three days, only comes to fruition as a moderate commodity influenced by the fad of its era, a confluence of individual heroism and disenchantment of government. The cast is sumptuous but solid, the under-appreciated Mr. von Sydow gracefully steals the show with his continental mystique and generates palpable chemistry with a committed yet greenhorn Redford. Finally, on a fun note, ostensibly its conspiracy theory has been retouched and served in Russo brothers' CAPTAIN America: THE WINTER SOLDIER (2014), where Redford also stars, only this time, he is on the other side of the team.