Conspiracy Theory
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- Synopsis
- Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) is a New York City cab driver who seems to have absorbed every bit of crackpot information passed along as "suppressed news" that's surfaced on talk radio or the Internet in the past 20 years....
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- Starring
- Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart, Stephen Kahan
- Director(s)
- Richard Donner
- Distributor(s)
- Silver Pictures
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 135 min.
Critic Reviews
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 review
You'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 review
Unfortunately, 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 review
