After watching this movie I had to smoke a cigarette so that I could calm down enough to go to sleep. Wow. I have never been on drugs, but this movie made me feel like I was tripping during the last 30 min of the movie. More on that later...
At the end of this month I will be cancelling my netflix instant streaming. So I wanted to find a couple of more instant movies to watch. I came across this Francis Ford Coppola thriller starring Gene Hackman, Harrison Ford, Allan Garfield, Robert Duvall, Teri Garr. That is a little misleading because Garr and Duvall have very small roles. Ford was not a superstar in 1974 but does a great job in his role.
Hackman plays Harry Caul- a man who is socially backwards but is the nations leading private deductive and wiretapper. He can listen to anyone's conversation, anywhere. He is the best and people pay him big money to find out information they need. Put him in a social setting and he is completely lost and has a hard time talking to humans. Just let him tap your phone, then he is comfortable.
The musical score is incredible. The movie is slow and really helps the viewer see what a meticulous man Caul is. Don't touch his stuff, don't question him, just let him work. I don't know if this is really a thriller, it is just a weird movie with some cool scenes. As for the drug reference, the last 30 min is so weird that I was really feeling the twilight zone. 2.5 stars for me and not recommended. By the way- did Hackman ever have hair? My goodness the guy was bald in his 30s.
John Cazale has a role in this movie and died shortly after. He was in a relationship with Meryl Streep at the time of his death but they were not engaged yet.
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I started this movie but could not get past the first twenty minutes of it.
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