![]() ![]() ![]() Knocked unconscious during an ambush in Iraq, Major Bennet Marco (Denzel Washington) doesn't remember much of the events that followed. Instead of using the Korean War as a backdrop, now it is the first war in Iraq, which rings just as true with today's audiences and doesn't diminish the story a bit. The original 1962 "The Manchurian Candidate" was highly suspenseful political thriller that played upon sensibilities that directly affected people at the time, so how can you create a remake of such a move over 40 years later? By updating it accordingly, and that is exactly what Jonathan Demme and his crew did.
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