I'm sorry, but I simply can't buy Mel Gibson as a crazy taxi driver. Then again, I can't buy Julia Roberts as a prosecutor (or whatever she is). I might have bought Patrick Stewart as a diabolical madman, but he's only on screen for 5 minutes. This movie just doesn't work. This is truly a Mass Appeal movie. An interesting idea for a cool movie is taken, popular actors are shoehorned into the parts, all complexity is removed or flattened so that Average Movie Goer won't be confused or disturbed. What you have left is Just Another Thriller. Don't bother with this one. Hitchcock would have made a fantastic film with this material, McNaughton just makes a movie.
Review of Conspiracy Theory
