![]() ![]() Smilovic and Katzberg surround Irons with proven talent who more than do their part, too. His take on Joe Turner is slightly more volatile than Redford’s, mainly because he’s slightly younger - think of Ben Affleck in “The Sum of All Fears” as opposed to Harrison Ford in “Patriot Games.” His accent slips from time to time, but he’s a believably green CIA analyst (if also a surprisingly pretty one) stuck in an unexpected life-or-death scenario. Even after two hours, Joe is still trying to come to terms with his situation, so it makes sense that Irons’ performance would still be leaning harder into desperation than confidence he hasn’t found that yet, but it’s clear he can. Yet much like the series’ unexpected success, Irons largely pulls it off. ![]() Irons has… “The White Queen” and a supporting role in the already forgotten teen adaptation of “The Host.” (Saoirse Ronan was in that, you guys! She was the star!) By the time Redford made “Three Days of the Condor,” he already had “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “The Candidate,” “Jeremiah Johnson,” “The Sting,” and “The Way We Were” in his rearview. Not only is Max Irons of European descent instead of a prototypical All-American (he’s the son of Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack, making him an Englishman and Irishman), but he’s a relative newcomer to domestic audiences. Perhaps the biggest shift isn’t even updating ’70s-era job descriptions, style, and locations from 1975 to 2018, but that the star of “Condor” is the anti-Robert Redford. and digs into the American government’s questionable moral compass and ties to big business. “Condor” isn’t particularly political (yet), but it does shift from New York to Washington D.C. ![]() In Pollack’s film, every government agent is a suspect - even the mailman comes after Redford’s Joe Turner - and there’s plenty of reason to bring up similar institutional doubts in 2018. Is the agency after him? Is someone else? Who can be trusted? These paranoid questions are the same ones posed by the movie, and they’re certainly relevant today. He’s the only survivor, and now he’s got to figure out why his coworkers were killed and what he can do to save himself. But before he can firmly decide his future (and please skip to the next paragraph if you’re unfamiliar with the previous “Condor” book or movie), Joe’s clandestine station is attacked. That’s not exactly what he signed up for, but it does make him question his predetermined beliefs. His bosses tried to use a computer program he built years ago to suss out a terrorist threat and, because it worked, now they’re willing to keep misapplying the program in the future. ‘The Idol’ Episode 4 Hints at a Head-Scratching TwistĪfter being called in by the top brass to help catch a suspected terrorist, Joe Turner (Max Irons) is done with the intelligence business. ![]()
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