I'm not going to go raving about how original this movie is because the fact is I've seen a bunch of movies like it. but how many of them were better? Probably not many. It's about a guy who gets caught up in some spy business that he doesn't know anything about. Suddenly he's the guy who everyone's after and he doesn't have a clue why. This is the basic storyline for so many of Alfered Hitchcock's movies like North By Northwest. Marathon Man focuses more on the action than those movies do and it works out real well. The movie is divided up nicely so that the first half is all about the setup and the second half is about the action. That second half is a nice payoff. Even though this movie felt familiar, it was still very enjoyable.
Review of Marathon Man
