Review – Marathon Man

This film is legendary for the psychotic “Is it safe?” dentistry scenes. Other than the big gross-out, however, this is a not-half-bad political thriller about a hapless grad student involved by his brother in an international conspiracy of Nazi war criminals, shadowy government agencies and diamond smugglers. The impact of the brutal violence tends to outweigh the occasionally thin plot, but overall this isn’t a bad example of the seventies-era thriller. Worth seeing