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This is one of the Best film that three of the cast ever made! Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts and Patrick Stewat! This is one of the best thriller movie, It has alot of action. Richard Donner did a great job directing this film. As a fan of Star Trek,...
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This is one of the Best film that three of the cast ever made! Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts and Patrick Stewat! This is one of the best thriller movie, It has alot of action. Richard Donner did a great job directing this film. As a fan of Star Trek, I was shock to see Patrick Stewart playing the villian. He makes a very good villian. Mel Gibson and Julie Robert did a great job playing their characters. I gived this movie five stars.

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Posted oct 2, 2008 2:46 am pt

• [+] Dallas Observer
  
  90
  Even when Conspiracy Theory is jammed or rushed or overly jittery, Gibson's command--of Jerry's fractured psyche, his freak perceptions, and his ardor--gives the picture blue-eyed soul.

  by Michel Sragow | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  75
  Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts contribute major star power to the uneven tale, but it never becomes as convincing as a real conspiracy theory should.

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
  75
  The good guys metamorphose into bad guys and back into good guys with dazzling efficiency in Brian Helgeland's disturbing, comic script.

  by Barbara Shulgasser | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  70
  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.

  by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  67
  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.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  63
  Unfortunately, the parts of the movie that are truly good are buried beneath the deadening layers of thriller cliches and an unconvincing love story.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  60
  Though it tries to be different, with hair's-breadth escapes that don't depend on implausible stunts or Bondian-scale explosions, Conspiracy Theory is an uneasy mix of laughs and thrills; suspense and soap.

  by Kim Newman | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  50
  Not a terrible movie exactly, just a dark, edgy idea relentlessly worn down into mildly diverting blandness by the mega-wattage presence of stars Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  50
  A 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.

  by Todd McCarthy | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  50
  The 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.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  50
  In the end, Conspiracy Theory fails to work as an action film, a romance, or a mystery -- all of which it aspires to be.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
  50
  Instead of a scalding brew of mirth and malice, served black, Donner settles up a tepid latte, decaf.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  50
  Conspiracy Theory doesn't know whether it wants to be a comedy, a political thriller, a romance or a satire.

  by Charles Taylor | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  50
  It's just a simple thriller whose goal is little more than to keep moving.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  50
  The film isn't really about much and so feels patchy and forced, with elements more calculated than inspired, more urgent than exciting.

  by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert | Read Full Review »