Review by David Ehrlich from Film.com

It’s appropriate, and perhaps almost necessary, that John Frankenheimer’s Seconds is ultimately a very good film that’s dying to be great. The final chapter in Frankenheimer’s informal Paranoia Trilogy, (the other installments being The Manchurian Candidate and Seven Days in May), Seconds is the best and certainly the most enduringly resonant of the three, in part because it’s less of a political thriller than it is a resoundingly human one, less concerned with power than it is hope, regret and resignation…(MORE)