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With it's many knotty connections and complex exposition, the movie is definitely something of a muddle, but for that matter so are most conspiracy theories.
Read the full reviewYou're set up for when director Richard Donner -- who worked with Gibson on all three audience-pleasing Weapons -- switches the movie from a really interesting, jittery, literate, and witty tone poem about justified contemporary paranoia (and the creatively unhinged dark side of New York City) to an overloaded, meandering iteration of a Lethal Weapon project that bears the not-so-secret stamp of audience testing and tinkering.
Read the full reviewUnfortunately, the parts of the movie that are truly good are buried beneath the deadening layers of thriller cliches and an unconvincing love story.
Read the full reviewThe only sneaky scheme at work here is the one that inflates a hollow plot to fill 2 1/4 hours while banishing skepticism with endless close-ups of big, beautiful movie-star eyes.
Read the full reviewIt's just a simple thriller whose goal is little more than to keep moving.
Read the full reviewInstead of a scalding brew of mirth and malice, served black, Donner settles up a tepid latte, decaf.
Read the full reviewIn the end, Conspiracy Theory fails to work as an action film, a romance, or a mystery -- all of which it aspires to be.
Read the full reviewA below-par star vehicle for Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts, Conspiracy Theory is a sporadically amusing but listless thriller that wears its humorous, romantic and political components like mismatched articles of clothing.
Read the full reviewIt is one of those soap bubbles of a film, fleeting, ephemeral, seemingly there when it is not. As you leave the theater, it diminishes with each step, collapsing into shards of imagery and sensations of movement. It's the film that never was.
Read the full reviewIt might even have made a good film, but it hasn't. In the hands of stars in denial about their stardom and a director who can't be bothered to take things seriously, it has come out implausible and unsatisfying, a comic thriller that is not especially funny or thrilling.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 49
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Makes you think. Or Should.
"It's a great flick from an entertainment standpoint! The one line from it that is unassailable is Gibson's: The only good conspiracy is an unprovable one." While Aliens and Religious cults make for great headlines, the course of human history is full of surreptitious alliances and (being human history after all)the betrayals that such unions inevitably forge. The movie gives you a nice overview of some of the real niggling unanswered questions of our time while having fun. It doesn't beat you over the head and it's done with a wink and a nod. Just don't think about it too much or you might start paying attention. And then we all might have to start taking responsibility for the wretched state of our politics! ;)"
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