No, this is a normal man who was at the wrong place at the wrong time and who now has to face an unusual and life threatening situation. I guess the best way to describe this movie is calling it a classic spy thriller without James Bond-like locations or bad guys and and no super hero who can beat all the bad guys with a blink of an eye. But because he gradually builds up tension by slightly releasing more information, the writer knows how to keep you focused and interested. At first Turner appears to be an ordinary guy who arrives late for work. I guess the best thing about this movie is the fact that it doesn't give away all its information at once. Now he knows one thing for sure: the man too had a connection to the CIA, which means that someone in the CIA must be behind all this. He is discovered and attacked in the woman's house, but is able to kill the man. He will stay in her house until he can find out what exactly is going on. In an act of pure desperation - he no longer knows who he can trust - Turner kidnaps a woman he has never seen before and forces her to hide him. But when the man arrives, he immediately opens fire on Turner. He immediately calls a superior who sends his section chief to get him out of there. When he returns to his office after he went out to get lunch, he finds all his colleagues dead and he doesn't know who shot them. In reality he is a CIA researcher, with the code name Condor, who gets paid to read books, in which he has to find possible scenarios that could be used in intelligence work.
Turner works for the American Literary Historical Society, or at least so it seems.
Sure, you could call it a typical product of the seventies, but even today this movie feels up-to-date and believable.
Even though it was made thirty years ago, "Three Days of the Condor" still hasn't lost any of its power. Apparently he loves suspenseful thrillers and I sure hope for him that his movies will age as well as those that Hitchcock made. Sidney Pollack is a great admirer of Alfred Hitchcock, which he also proved with "The Interpreter".
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