“If they’re going to do Manchurian Candidate (1962) s. in our direction, with the surgeries and the endless fake I.D.’s, the strange weird governments of Europe and the history of enemies of the USA, and recall the Nazi foray into sporting activity, and then the communists as well, the things out of thin air doing weird sports everywhere, all niched out and made a part, of an international pageant from the start,