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| Conspiracy Theory [1997] | ![Conspiracy Theory [1997]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J48W1HFML._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart, Steve Kahan
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 14792
Format: Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), Arabic (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 130 minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321900150910
ASIN: B00004CX89
Release Date: September 25, 1998
Theatrical Release Date: August 8, 1997
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Amazon.co.uk Review
What is it about director Richard Donner that Mel Gibson enjoys so much that he's appeared in five of Donner's films? Is it the on-set pranks? Could it be the big-budget perks and $20 million paychecks? Or is it just a well-stocked catering table? Whatever the case, the iLethal Weapon/i star and director teamed up again, along with fellow superstar Julia Roberts, for this typically glossy, entertaining but ultimately hokey thriller. Gibson plays New York cab driver Jerry Fletcher, whose wacky belief in conspiracies finally hits on a coincidental truth involving an evil figure named Jonas (Patrick Stewart) and a secret program of government-funded mind control. Roberts plays the Justice Department attorney who finally believes in Jerry's paranoid ramblings. With a plot (from iLA Confidential/i co-writer Brian Helgeland) that's a lot of fun as long as you don't think about it too critically, iConspiracy Theory/i benefits immeasurably from the charisma of its high-magnitude stars. i--Jeff Shannon/i
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 Exactly what "genre" is this supposed to be in? January 18, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I didn't really know because it seemed to have a bit of everything with Gibson playing his paranoid taxi-driver part in this film at times similar to the COMEDIC way he acted in Lethal Weapon.Julia Roberts is normally worth watching but even she seemed overwhelmed by Gibson but I suppose she was just their for the ROMANCE. Patrick Stewart and his team conned the conners too easily and even though it's a film give the viewer some credibility to know that certain checks are run on people.Gibsons paranoia does have a basis we learn but by the time we do so the whole thing has become such a mix of different theories it's a job to remember where we started off.
Well acted and directed but not a very original argument December 24, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The theme is very common in American literature, and it is one of the favorite themes of authors like Stephen King. The state, and particularly the CIA and the FBI are the centers and the brains of a big conspiracy that is supposed to manipulate the democratic state into obedient compliance to security necessities as evaluated by the afore-said agencies and bureaus themselves. It always have to do with some kind of medical research in order to produce the perfect soldier and Bourne is one name in that line that has made the political paranoia of the American public more than famous and obvious, a paranoia that is seen as an entertainment, a paranoia that is often self inflicted as an entertainment without seeing that this process makes you paranoid anyway, but not on a regular everyday basis, only in an emergency situation. What the promoters of this emergency paranoia do not see is that it freezes the victims or the patients or the subjects into absolute fear and inaction when they should have all their consciousness at their disposal. They become unreliable and let themselves drown in mass reactions. The film is well done because it pretends there are two authorities in New York City that can defend normal citizens against these operations that are always connected with a crazy doctor and tied up to some past period, if possible before Reagan, as if the military-economic complex did not exist any more. The two saviors are the local police, NYPD in that case, and the department of justice. We can sleep peacefully. We are protected and the vision of the twin towers on the skyline of New York at the beginning of the film are there to prove how protected we are. It is entertaining though because it mixes the various necessary and unavoidable elements in an interesting way. The very secret agent, the victim of the medical treatment, does not remember what he did and where he comes from. He is at large at the beginning of the film and he will have to cause a lot of disruption to finally cause the manhunt to start against him. Then the film has a sentimental dimension in the fact that the killing robot failed his last mission by falling in love with the daughter of his target. And it is this love that will save him because he will understand she has to be protected and he will do it on his own, though she will cooperate, at least for a while, with the man-hunters before she realizes she is being used as a decoy and that she has been told lies. So a film that can dispel your solitude or boredom for one evening at home.br /br /Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelinesbr /
Didn't understand why it was so underrated by the critics. June 11, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The thing that stands out for me in this movie is the wonderful (and underrated) performance given by Mel Gibson. His part calls for an uneasy balance between a paranoid psychotic and romantic leading man and he treads that fine line beautifully. Despite all his craziness, he is totally likeable and his relationship with the Julia Roberts character is wonderfully complex and believable. Julia Roberts also gives an excellent performance and the chemistry between the two leads is perfect.br /br /All in all, I loved this film and didn't understand why it was so underrated by the critics.
 worth a look January 29, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
conspiracy theory is a 1997 movie starring mel gibson as a paranoid cabbie convinced that factions of the C.I.A are trying to kill the president and have also caused many deaths to leaders in the past,he has no proof except theorys and that causes his world to suddenly change when people in the C.I.A start to believe that gibson is closer to the truth than maybe even he himself believes.br /In the middle of this is a governement agent played by julia roberts who is a source that gibson talks too and she has reason to start believing his words as well.br /The film is stylish and fast paced enough to maintain interest but suffers from a contrived love interest between gibson and roberts that simply isnt plausible,plus gibsons acting is ropey which certainly isnt the norm and his ramblings get a little annoying at times but those arent really reasons to avoid seeing this,worth a watch but not gibson or director richard donners finest work.
The Boy who cried "Wolf" September 8, 2006
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
Imagine that you are a little paranoid (not much imagination required for me!), you see conspiracies everywhere, and you tell people by publishing all of them in your own magazine. People think you're a crank, a nut, you're written off as another one of those Government is hushing things up looneys. Imagine then if one of your many theories is right on the money and the conspirators are out to get you. You don't know why and no-one believes you - you're the little boy who cried Wolf!br /br /Mel Gibson plays the part of Jerry Fletcher, a New York Cabbie, being chased by the sinister Government man Dr Jonas (Patrick Stewart). Only one person half believes Jerry and that is Justice Department Attorney Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts) and together they run, and on the way discover the secret behind why Jerry knows what he knows and who he really was.br /br /A far from great film with some very average performances - I must say that Patrick Stewart was at his least believable - but the plot wasn't bad. In this current climate of belief that our governments are lying to us, perhaps this movie will undergo a revival. Conspiracy Theory wasn't a bad movie, not when others of the same ilk are taken into account, but probably not on many people's must see list. Some great sequences though, especially the way that Jerry's apartment was wired to destroy all usable evidence should the government come knocking.br /br /I quite enjoyed this flawed production, maybe you will too.
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