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CONDOR
June 6, 2018  | By David Bianculli

AT&T Audience Network, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

SERIES PREMIERE: If you have DirecTV, you have access to the Audience Network, which is where you can find this new series adaptation of 1975’s engrossing 3 Days of the Condor movie, which starred Robert Redford as a CIA analyst. This new series, starring Max Irons as the investigator, makes some necessary and, for the most part, justifiable changes: the guy reads computer screens and financial data instead of obscure books, and meets a woman at random through Tinder rather than at gunpoint. But in an age of cellphones, his insider knowledge as a former phone repairman, the most engrossing twist of the original movie, is negated here – and while, in this TV version, modernizing the tale works well within a framework of international terrorism and a weaponized plague, the characters aren’t expanded nearly as well as the plot points. But give this new Condor points for excellent location shooting in Washington, D.C. and its Georgetown neighborhood, and for its strong supporting cast, which includes William Hurt, Brendan Fraser, Bob Balaban, and Mira Sorvino.

 
 
 
 
 
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