This film is a modernised version of the previous Manchurian Candidate made in 1962. The film shows Denzel Washington playing the role of Captain Major Ben Marco. He goes through a tough time as he begins to reminisce what really happened in the Kuwait war that he and his men fought in. Dreams unfold the past and he recalls being hypnotised with his fellow soldiers and then being forced to murder someone. As the story furthers in, we see that a plot had been formed to hypnotise one of Marco's men, Raymond Shaw and make him the first mind controlled president of the US.
Raymond's mother is also in on the scheme as she convinces him that there was no hypnotising involved and that Marco is crazy in thinking so; all the while she is controlling him and getting him to do exactly what she wants.
The film is fast paced and exciting whilst we follow Marco's agonising journey to let everyone know that Raymond Shaw isn't the man everybody thinks he is. We feel frustration for him when everyone looks upon him as crazy and often begin to wonder if he is in fact a little deluded. The film ends with Raymond and his mother being murdered by Marco, through Raymond's choice. We are left feeling slightly baffled and somewhat overwhelmed with all the turns that occur.
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