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Siskoid

If you're looking for some kind of satire about the U.S. president in 1967's The President's Analyst, you won't get it. It really is about the title character, played by James Coburn, and how he unravels after at first enthusiastically taking on POTUS as a client. Then reality itself unravels and it becomes a crazy spy spoof. That's NOT A COMPLAINT! With its numbers-filed-off security agencies and Lalo Schifrin score, it almost feels like a strange episode of Mission: Impossible, but one where you're following the target. And if it weren't for the weird sight gags, I could almost make a case for it. The President's Analyst is weird and wonky and you never know where it's gonna go next, but it's also damn prescient, its exaggerations or conspiracy theories speaking to 2020 in a way that couldn't have been foreseen. A comedy about cold war anxiety that I would confidently program in a double feature with Dr. Strangelove. (But as the opening act, you understand.)

3 years 3 months ago

traistboar

Leonard Maltin and Roger Ebert both gave this movie 4 out of 4 stars, mainly citing its satire and humor as the reasons. In my opinion, this film has dated badly. It's not funny and the plot meanders all over the place to a ridiculous conclusion.

1 year 10 months ago