Truly Dreadful Film

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Basically I like the film. Unfortunately I find the performance of Mel Gibson mediocre at best. Really to bad. Gibson simply doesn't convince me. The main character would have deserved a more lived through performance. With Gibson I have the feeling he simply can't do better. Would have liked to see Brad Pitt as the main character. Would have been fun. Could perhaps have been an exceptionally good film than. Basically the characters of Gibson and Roberts somehow reminds me of Bruce Willis and Kathryn Railly as the so-called psychiatric patient and his psych in Twelve Monkeys which was released one year before in 1995. Only the execution of that film was considerably better.

Let's talk about sadness. Hey, IMDb, let's talk about a type of sadness that lingers that follows along that haunts in bitter eternity across your life. Or, I guess there is this movie, I could review it? Actors got phone calls, which lead to meetings. Those meetings resulted in lawyers receiving phone calls. Those lawyers had meetings and from those meetings it was deemed that this movie could be made. An insurance company gets their cut. Yes, at least one prostitute was paid on a production company credit card, it's cool. Also there is a soundtrack which can still be purchased. At this very moment, you could go on Amazon.com and find a copy of this movie or it's soundtrack. Sadness.

Conspiracy Theory (1997): Dir: Richard Donner / Cast: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart, Sean Patrick Thomas: Intriguing thriller about corruption and the inability to communicate. It stars Mel Gibson as a cab driver who sees conspiracies everywhere and types them in a newsletter. He takes them to a lawyer played by Julia Roberts who accepts his unscheduled appearances because he saved her from muggers. He speaks without taking a breath, and his apartment is one big escape hatch. The villain is played by Patrick Stewart and he is the reason behind his paranoia. Clever despite an ending that isn't overly satisfying. Directed by Richard Donner whose partnership with Gibson has succeeded three Lethal Weapon films. He also made Superman: The Movie as well as The Omen. Gibson is superb as a man smitten by fear but tries to expose it. Roberts is strong as a woman unaware of elements in her past particularly her father's death. What doesn't quite work here is where both roles are positioned in the conclusion. Patrick Stewart's villain is a let down in what can easily be summed up as a cardboard imitator of Laurence Olivier's sadistic Nazi dentist in Marathon Man. Other roles are not exactly broadened beyond paper thin either. Theme regards fact and fiction and the ability to tell the difference. Score: 8 / 10

As much as I dislike Mel Gibson for the repeated bigoted remarks that he has made off the screen, I have to admit that he gave a riveting performance in this film.He portrays a cab driver who is constantly thinking up various conspiracies, and then becomes pursued when one of his conspiracy theories proves to be right.As an attorney,Julia Roberts, who lost her father in a mysterious shooting, becomes involved with Gibson.The film is a good one due to the plot twists and turns. You really don't know who is good and evil in it.Patrick Stewart portrays a man with many hats. You just don't know where he is at until the very end.Roberts comes slowly to believe in what Gibson is saying until it appears that he had killed her father.The ending may be disappointing to many, but was probably necessary due to the clandestine and safety measures for the Roberts part.