Reason #1 The dentist scene. Hoffman gets some impromptu, unwanted dental work. This is the scene everyone remembers from this movie, but I really didn't think it was all that bad. I must be a sick twist.
Reason #2. Roy Scheider. IMDB now lists the top 4 films a person is "Best Know For" and this film doesn't make that list and he is great in it. I put him right up there with Robert Duvall over a career.
Reason #3. Decades before Inglorious Basterds would give the Jews their revenge, this movie is treading those same themes.
I give Marathon Man ★★★1/2.
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