Description:When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happenedWhen his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.... (more)(less)
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Watched September 21st - Amazon Streaming - Rewatch
"Somebody got into our heads with big steel toe boots, cable cutters and a chainsaw and they went to town - neurons got exposed and circuits got rewired - our brain cells got obliterated." - Ben Marco
I didn't like The Manchurian Candidate remake that much when I saw it the first time, and now seeing it again back to back with the original, my opinion hasn't changed. It tells the same basic story about a brainwashed army squad turned into a"
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