[Karl Spooner]

For such a top notch captivating movie it sure deserved a better ending. It’s like watching a perfect game in bowling and the very last toss goes in the guttter. I still can’t fathom how that could of happened.

[Chainmail]

Just watched it last evening and I thought that the ending fit the paranoid ethos just fine: an early portrait of an all-powerful and uncaring "deep state", complete with government controlling the New York Times.

What ending would you have given it?

[avenir]

What made the ending poor? He was in a no win situation and just decided to take his chances (instead of heading to Europe and disappearing as von Sydow’s character suggested).

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

‘Condor’ has ‘deep state’ overtones, news media repression, double agents, and depicts The US Government conducting ‘business-as-usual’.
Faye Dunaway’s character seemed a stretch to believe, but Max Von Sydow is terrific in this movie.