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This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Continuing my plan to watch every Mel Gibson movie in order I come to Conspiracy Theory.Mel Gibson teams up with Richard Donner yet again, in what should be another slamdunk for the pair!! But for some reason, it misses the mark for this reviewer. Plot In A Paragraph: Jerry (Gibson) is a New York City cab driver who is obsessed with conspiracy theories. He becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true.Some of the best bits in the movie is when Gibson is rambling on about his theories, he delivers a solid performance. As for Roberts, I've always found her pretty bland, and I never understood the fascination with her. Patrick Stewart is OK, but he can't do intimidating. The love story is as cliché as they come, and I think it may have been added after Gibson and Roberts were cast, just cos the studio probably thought it's what audiences wanted, as it seems out of place. I also wonder if there were reshoots, as Gibson's hair style changes between scenes. Without going into spoilers, I actually remembered a different ending too!! I didn't recall the last scene in the movie. Teaming Gibson up with Roberts, who was Hollywoods golden girl at the time in a movie directed by Richard Donner should have guaranteed $100 million, but it only grossed $75 million at the domestic box office to end the year the 19th highest grossing movie of 1997. Which was considered the Star power of Gibson and Roberts at the time.

This is pretty intriguing thriller based on the secrets of government conspiracies. Cab driver Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) spouts off plenty of conspiracy theories to his customers and, unfortunately for him, one of his theories proves right and he finds himself a target of evil government spies.The movie starts off a little slow but picks up speed when Fletcher is captured by CIA agents and is interrogated by the main villain, Dr. Jonas (Patrick Stewart), which leads to a game of cat and mouse as Fletcher dodges the bad guys left and right. Caught in the middle of all the chaos is Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts) of the U.S. District Attorney's Office, whom Fletcher has a crush on and ends up working with her to allude the spies and solve the mystery behind the conspiracy.The script is interesting and you will find some of the same plot elements of the The Bourne Identity in the movie. The acting was pretty good, as I thought Gibson and Roberts make a great team and had great on-screen chemistry, and I thought that Patrick Stewart made a formidable villain.Overall, a good government thriller that one will find engaging.Grade B+

Jerry Fletcher is a man in love with a woman he saved from muggers a while ago and now watches her from afar, like a pseudo guardian angel. She works for the government, but Fletcher is an outspoken critic of the government. He has conspiracy theories for everything, from aliens to political assassinations. One of his theories finds itself to be accurate. But which one? Some dangerous people want him dead, and the only person he trusts is the woman he loves....The thing with this film is that Gibson is doing his usual kooky schtick that we all know and love from other Donner movies and the action comedies that made him such a big hit in Hollywood after Mad Max. But, kooky and mental health problems really don't mix, so you find yourself never really warming to his character, because even though he says he isn't, Jerry is a potential threat to Alice, because the man is unpredictable, so the film is pretty unsure of what kind of genre it falls into.The thought of Gibson and Roberts starring in a film together must have sounded like a license to print money in 1997, but it's easy to see why it didn't hit big at the box office. If Donner had gone a little darker, and made it a full on thriller, it would've done much better, because it has dark elements, but Jerry is portrayed as a lovable dolt who's misunderstood.Roberts is okay as Alice, and really comes into her own during the final act. Stewart plays Basil Exposition here, used only to explain story arcs and plot points to us via Roberts, but he plays a good spook.But the Donner sheen is there, and any film featuring the Gibson and the director is worth watching, I just wished the studio had gone for the dark route, done a straight up thriller and got rid of the tagged on happy ending.

I probably should stop thinking about this film too much or I might talk myself into disliking it. There's a lot of disbelief to suspend in this one, the biggest one occurring when Jerry (Mel Gibson) stopped his car on the bridge with Alice (Julia Roberts) along, hopped across the divider, and found an abandoned car up on a jack that looked like it was ready to go just for him when he got there. If you were a gambler in Vegas, what odds would you take on that one? Then there was the whole business at the stable when Jerry began remembering or mis-remembering the circumstances of Alice's father's murder. He started out thinking that he did it, that he might have done it, and then in a moment of clarity, knew that he didn't do it. How was Alice supposed to figure out which version was correct? But she did it - remarkable! I guess what you have to do here is go with the flow of Jerry Fletcher's wild and random musings until the whole back story of Dr.Jonas/Henry Finch (Patrick Stewart) plays out. His diabolical experiments in mind control with Jerry as his prize specimen was a well constructed plot device, as Jerry in turn is followed closely by Lowry's (Cylk Kozart) shadow organization.I imagine there are conspiracy theorists who approach Jerry Fletcher's level of paranoia, and it must be a tough way to live. The film would have raised a whole lot of eyebrows after the fact if one of Jerry's predictions had been the destruction of the World Trade Center. Released four years before 9/11/01, the movie had a couple of clear shots of the Twin Towers during the first half as Jerry advanced many of his astounding theories.