Avis des critiques

Steers' work is a true multimedia experience, an assemblage of points that create a solid, seemingly seamless, whole. THE PARALLAX VIEW isn't as overt an example of the aforementioned phenomenon, but its mise-en-scène is similarly beguiling, so much so that one can forgive its rather dawdling narrative.

Starts like a proto-JFK (the Warren Commission is a giant coffin), misdirects with action-man heroics for a while (suave handsome Beatty is inspired casting) then collapses - after that bizarre montage - into wilful abstraction, nothing but mood and standalone suspense scenes (a napkin on a cart in an airplane aisle), a mind-boggling move for a studio movie.

The Parallax View offers not so much a mystery to be followed and eventually solved as it does a gaping void where one ought to be. A mystery has an answer; here there are only more questions, endless numbers of them, and though Warren Beatty's headstrong reporter exhausts the running time gathering clues, they add up to nothing. In place of a solution he finds only certainty: Those in power always win.