Conspiracy

2008
4.6| 1h30m| R| en
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A Gulf War veteran with PTSD (Kilmer) heads to a small town to find his friend. When he arrives his friend and his family have vanished and the townsfolk afraid to answer questions about their disappearance. He soon discovers that the town is owned and controlled by one man (Gary Cole) and he doesn't like people asking questions.

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Also starring Alesia Riabenkova

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Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
Dotbankey A lot of fun.
Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Matt Kracht The plot: A former marine, trying to find out what happened to his friend, runs up against racist vigilantes.I've never actually been that big of a Val Kilmer fan, but I'm willing to watch his movies. Unfortunately, as some people have already mentioned, this movie shares more than a few similarities to Steven Seagal's direct-to-video movies. It's got a left-leaning political message, an aging and out-of-shape movie star, and some truly awful dialogue.I'm not going to lie. This is not a good movie. It's completely lacking in subtlety, one of the characters goes on a long political rant in the middle of the movie, and the fight choreography was not very impressive. However, I agree with the politics, I like Gary Cole, and I guess I'm a sucker for these cheesy direct-to-video movies. I'm willing to overlook a lot of things as long as I don't get bored.I can't really recommend this movie to other people, but I found it a lot more tolerable than most reviewers. If you're a liberal, you're looking to waste 90 minutes, and you're a fan of Val Kilmer... well, maybe then you might want to see this movie, but you'd still have to be pretty desperate.
Karl Ericsson There seems to be 2 totally different viewpoints in the US. One, that you might call the viewpoint of the lackey and the other that of decency, often referred to as being "socialist" or "lefty". The latter viewpoint does not embrace competition between human beings, where the whole point is to break the spirit of your fellow man, so that he loses the competition. In fact, the decent viewpoint is never to compete with others and instead only compete with yourself for perfection, regardless of what other men or women are doing. The doings of others is then only interesting, when it is a reminder of your own imperfection, such as, for instance, the heroism of the handicapped and downtrodden who do not give up on living decently, which always brings a decent man to shame, who is not handicapped in any way. The doings of the others, the rich of birth and their lackeys, who are properly portrayed in this film as the villains, is instead a reminder for the decent man, that there is still much to be done. This is an anti-American film, if "americanism" means glorifying business and treat market-economy as if it was a gospel and the measure for all things good. Business-men never invented anything but their money could, so far, always buy the inventors, such as the Germans being bought to land a human being on the moon and all that has followed since. But maybe will the time come when the inventors will not let themselves be bought... Let's hope so and let then the only important fight begin, which sadly, judging from some of the reviews on this film, will be necessary.
Will Von Wizzlepig Film is entertainment, to be sure, but film is also art.In the entertainment category, this movie is essentially interchangeable with any random episode of "the Dukes of Hazzard" or "the A-Team". That is, campy garbage.In the art category, it's somewhere between soul-less, mass-produced garbage (see also, comics in the paper which ran their course years ago but which continue on anyway) and something your kid made which you are forced to display on the refrigerator. That is, hollow, of low-quality, and unimpressive.Sad for Val Kilmer, who was so very recently awesome in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang". I guess it's no surprise- IMDb shows he worked on nine different projects in 2008. Perhaps one of his other projects will make up for it.I give the movie a 3 merely for its technical merit- the prize you get for showing up, so to speak- and the fact that the movie hints at a conspiracy concerning the USA and war {gasp!}.
jsorenson777 The good guys are good and the bad guys are real bad. Val Kilmer plays a one-legged Billy Jack in a nice twist on a story that will continue forever. Former special forces bad-ass who doesn't want to fight no-more gets roped into an evil environment (with a Dick Cheney clone as Darth Vader) and he finally gets pushed a little too far. He moves fast invisibly "Like a ghost" - with one leg. Works as well here as in old-fashioned radio theater.Low-budget and thus sparse but well done with myriad close-ups and all characters as caricatures. There is no pretense of realism and thus it works as a comic book on screen. Screenplay, direction, camera work and acting are all at least interesting.

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