Conspiracy

Slow to get going, and a bit formulaic, however the action kicks in and it gets real good. worth a watch but dont expect too much!

I was doing housework while this was running and even without paying much attention I got the gist of it and it was pathetic.

Despite its crude, formulaic characterisations and some pretentious editing, this unsubtle action film is worth a look because of its underlying themes. Firstly, it is a remake of John Sturges’s marvellous 1955 thriller, “Bad Day at Black Rock” and, just as that earlier film used Western and film noir genres to critique racism and paranoia in Cold War America, so “Conspiracy” attempts to hold up a mirror to a post 9/11 America; a country in the grip of racism, paranoia and foreign wars, engendered by neo-con politicians (the real conspirators of the title). In both films the small Western town is an allegorical representation of the Nation; in “Bad Rock” it is isolated and decaying; in “Conspiracy” it is apparently thriving and expanding but, in reality built on immigrant slave labour and dominated by “Halicorps” (a thinly-disguised Haliburton?) and its goons. Seen thus, the disabled Iraq war vet, Val Kilmer’s threats to “burn it all down” is a radical cry and the film is an attempt to reclaim a misappropriated American patriotism from the racist imperialism of the Right.

Significantly, the film has been denied wide spread release, and is criticised for technical incompetence by the multiplex morons who sit through equally crude but brain-dead action films in their droves. Look at the other reviews here, which tell you all you need to know. I cannot give this film many stars for brilliance, but I can acknowledge it has the courage of its convictions.

Good film bit like a modern day western however the advert picture shows Morgan Freeman in it and unless he was a very shy extra he wasn't in it . Sorry Love film you have boob there . I enjoyed the film though.