I'd read an article mentioning this movie as one of the better espionage films. I was intrigued and got it on sale from Amazon when I was picking up another movie. It's based on a book called Six Days of the Condor by James Grady. I'm not sure why he has less days in the movie, but maybe one day I'll read the book and find out.
A covert CIA section is reading random books and looking for patterns and networks hiding within other countries. One day, while Condor is picking up lunch, someone comes in and murders everyone inside. He calls HQ, but something seems off, so he doesn't come in. Now, people are trying to kill him, and he doesn't know who to trust.
This movie was really good. I liked Robert Redford's acting, but the weird love interactions were a bit strange. The jazz musical interlude, and the whole love scene was just weird. Putting that aside, I liked the twists and turns. The zinger at the end was really cool, and this was much cooler than I was expecting.
It's still eerie to me to see the Twin Towers in movies. It looked like they were trying to suggest the CIA had offices in there, but when I tried to look that up, it seemed like the CIA only had a clandestine office in Tower 7, which was revealed after 9/11. I went down a whole rabbit hole with that. I didn't realize there were so many towers in the WTC complex, and I certainly don't remember it collapsing on the 11th. So much was going on that day, since it wasn't part of the attacks, maybe there wasn't as much attention on it.
Back to the movie. There are people in it that I wasn't sure how I felt about them at the end. During certain points of the movie, it seemed like there were "good guys" and "bad guys," but at the end, the waters were a lot muddier. This one easily earns a Good Movie! review.
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