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Summary: In the top ten of most unbearable
Review: I'm not bashing this movie, really. I like Mel Gibson. I like Julia Roberts. I enjoy the occasional "conspiracy" story line. So why did the combination fail? It's easy...writing. I'm no writer of award winning screenplays, but the dialogue in this movie made me want to seek shelter in the script of a Barney episode. Contrived, forced, redundant, cliche, and I'm being kind. Mel is funny and attractive. Julia is also. They're just the victims of a very bad script. Young writers take this one home and take notes on how not to develop a storyline.
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Summary: Mel at his Best
Review: I don't quite understand some of the negative reviewing going on about this film. Hey guys and gals - its just entertainment. IMO this is actually Mel's most underated and finest bit of acting. It was for sure somewhat strange but only Mel could pull it off especially his wheelchair part. It is truly entertaining - so just sit and enjoy with some popcorn of course.
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Summary: Velly interesting, but shtoopid
Review: I guess Mel Gibson had to pay rent on one of his expensive houses to play in this Manchurian Candidate for Dummies. The cinematography is muddy and the direction is a vacant lot of fast editing and stuff that explodes. Sure Mel Gibson is attractive, but he has yet to make a movie that proves he can act (with the exception of Road Warrior and the Year of Living Dangerously). This film exists in the cinema limbo between "films so bad they are good" and "well made films." It's like Lethal Weapon minus the focus, Cutthroat Island minus the effort, and Deep Impact minus the talent. Use that money and buy that Psychic TV CD you always wanted.
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Summary: Better than the critics said...
Review: I know that this movie was not one of the critics favorites, but I found it to be quite enjoyable. Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts are both excellent, and Gibson in particular is great as the paranoid conspiracy theorist who attempts to convince Roberts that his theories are real. The scene when Gibson's apartment is destroyed is a superb dramatization of paranoia taken to the extreme.If you missed this one, pick up a copy as you will enjoy this movie. The extra features on the DVD are somewhat skimpy, but the audio and video quality is excellent.
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Summary: Could have been a good one
Review: The first 20 minutes of this movie are quite entertaining; Gibson portrays one of the usual paranoids believing that the entire government plans to overtake the freedom of the nation and is controlled by the UN already. As there are a number of very disturbed people who really are taking this for granted the movie could have served a great deal on giving us an insight on their lives. But no, of course, Gibson *is* watched, he *is* being kidnapped by some government agency and so on. At that point the movie turns to complete boredom. We all can sense what will happen and the ending in itself screams "tested with 200 audiences" at you. Even if we leave logic aside and say, ok, he is watched, the story stays low-level; all of the most secure and highly secret agencies can be identified by usually driving black cars with government license plates to make identification even more convenient. It is to say that Gibson did some good acting here; he probably saves the movie from complete catastrophe. Julia Roberts does what she usually does in her "serious" roles: she looks innocent and determined, others would say frigid and hysteric. Patrick "Captain Picard" Steward's talents are only used to a very limited degree. I wonder if he knew beforehand what he is getting himself into. If you are into conspiracy movies, watch one of the Grisham adaptions or the like. If you go training in the woods already for the day the UN will invade "God's own country" then go ahead with this one. It will serve your paranoia well and will give a number of psychologists an income for years to come.
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Summary: outstanding
Review: this was a great movie i love the action packed film. Knowing the gov. is hiding meny things. I think if you like this move/dvd you should read the novel 1984
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Summary: This Therory's A winner!
Review: I was at my friends house one day, and we were flipping around for a something good to watch, and then she (the movie buff, she see's one scence of a movie and know which one it is) said "hey this is a good movie, It's conspirecy therory", I had never seen it before and it is great!!! Now, i have had lots of movies I really liked so many in fact I just couldn't name 1 that was my Favorite. Now i Can and my favorite movie is conspirecy therory!! :)
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Summary: unusual yet, satisfying
Review: Mel Gibson is an overly paraniod, writer, per-say. He basically gets involved with "them/they" when he writes a column about a conspiracy about NASA using an earth quake to kill the president.... a reediculace idea I know but somehow.. I don't know. Mel Gibson looses his memory when "they" get involve and inject himwith some tonic. Julia Roberst is his crush who knows all about histheory... I am not gonna tell you any more except for the fact that this movie was an amaingly good dark comedy about a very, very paranoid man and his gal...
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Summary: JOIN THE CONSPIRACY!
Review: This was a silly, yet thoroughly enjoyable movie that had me enthralled throughout its two hours. The basic premise of the movie evolves around a taxi driver, Jerry (Gibson), who is extremely paranoid (for reasons the movie reveals), and believes that everything is a conspiracy theory. He becomes obsessed with a woman, Julia Roberts, who works in the justice department, and looks to her for support in his ideas. When Gibson is captured by the very people he fears, things start becoming complicated, you start to realise that there is more foundation to his "lunacy" and he is maybe not as crazy as you thought...or is he worse? The plot then twists and turns its way to the end, in true thriller style. Roberts and Gibson are a fantastic combination, that really gives the movie its edge. Gibsons portrayal of Jerry is nothing short of brilliant, and there is also a strong supporting cast who give good performances. Although the movies plot is serious, the characters, Jerry in particular, are amusing and give the movie an overall light-hearted feel, in some scenes, when Gibson escapes from his captures in a wheelchair for instance, the film verges on being a black comedy, renminiscent of 'Very Bad Things' style madness. There is also a subtle love story thrown in for good measure (what Hollywood movie is complete without one?), however, its discreetness is its saviour and actually adds something to the plot without becoming "icky". If you enjoy movies such as Enemy of the state, or are just a fan of Gibson or Roberts, then this is a must see.
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Summary: Paranoia so thick, it's real.
Review: Mel Gibson goes beyond cynicism and conventionality when he tries to figure out what he perceives to be a government conspiracy. Jerry Fletcher (Gibson) is to all appearances a clinically obsessive and paranoid individual who thinks everything is a conspiracy. As a New York City cab driver, he is the perfect individual for conversation. But there is something to be said about this man who rants and raves every time he has a fare. The truth of the matter is that he is not so far out of touch with what is going on and will do anything to expose the government as well as protect himself and Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts), a justice department attorney who later finds reasons of her own to mistrust the government. The story takes a turn for the worst when a certain government psychiatrist/ agony authority named Dr. Jonas, (Patrick Stewart in a less kindhearted but very convincing role) takes notice of Fletcher's snooping around and decides to find out (more like squeeze out) what Yellow Cab's most chatty crusader knows about Black Ops. The film does require the audience to pay attention so as not to lose track of the plot, but aside from that, I feel this is one of the best works director Richard Donner has put forth in a long time. This is also a far better example of the director's work than his previous 1995 box office flop, Assassins. As far as manipulation films go, Conspiracy Theory is no JFK in that it is shorter and less bleeding-heart, but it is also not Three Days of the Condor, for it falls short of being as effective as a movie from the mid-1970's, which was made during a time when government mistrust was at an all time high.
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