um i don't know what crack y'all were smoking when you decided you thought this movie was excellent or whatever. I had heard so much good stuff about it, but it really sucked a lot. I'm sorry but both Dustin Hoffman's character and Laurence Olivier's character are completely underdeveloped. And what is the relationship of the "marathon man" idea, it seems like half of this movie is there so that like in key scenes they can come into play. Like he runs marathons and thats how he gets away from the men chasing him. This movie's first hour and a half is completely incomprehensible, i had no idea what the hell was going on. There are great actors and they try really hard but this is a really poorly written movie. William Goldman really tried hard with this but it seems like in adapting his book he forgot a lot of stuff. i felt like if i read the book it would be better. This movie all in all just seemed to pale in comparison to The Boys of Brazil, which dealt with very similiar themes but did it in a much scarier and better manner. Anyway it sucked, by the last hour we were doing mystery science theater 3000 dialogue to this stupidity.
Review of Marathon Man
