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 Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
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 Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
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 Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
In the end, Conspiracy Theory fails to work as an action film, a romance, or a mystery -- all of which it aspires to be.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: Corie Brown
Roberts and Gibson form a "pas de deux," two lonely urbanites fighting vague yet common enemies in a plot that never quite comes together.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Instead of a scalding brew of mirth and malice, served black, Donner settles up a tepid latte, decaf.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
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.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Charles Taylor
Conspiracy Theory doesn't know whether it wants to be a comedy, a political thriller, a romance or a satire.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
It is one of those soap bubbles of a film, fleeting, ephemeral, seemingly there when it is not. As you leave the theater, it diminishes with each step, collapsing into shards of imagery and sensations of movement. It's the film that never was.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
It might even have made a good film, but it hasn't. In the hands of stars in denial about their stardom and a director who can't be bothered to take things seriously, it has come out implausible and unsatisfying, a comic thriller that is not especially funny or thrilling.Read Full Review »
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