Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
The Manchurian Candidate has generally received positive reviews.
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The Manchurian Candidate was released in 2004 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 663 reviews, giving The Manchurian Candidate (2004) an average rating of 69%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 75%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 69%.
With a score of 69%, The Manchurian Candidate is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2004, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2004 with similar scores include films like I, Robot, Hellboy and The Butterfly Effect.
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