Shadow Conspiracy

This movie is filled with so many idiotic moments, that you wonder how it ever got made. For example, they get into the sewers from the Capitol and while they're in the sewers you can see signs pointing to various government buildings, and then they come up in the middle of the street! I highly doubt that government buildings would provide public access through the city sewer system. Anyways, I gave this a 2 instead of a 1 just because of its comic value. I laughed the whole way through at the idiocy of everyone involved in this movie.

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I think nothing makes Cosmatos happier than a galumphing ineluctable menace, with the force of fate and vengeance behind it, that kills everything in its path. In this case, he got the menace and the killing, but the driving force was lacking. And moreover, a lot of nonsense crept in. I mean, when top government officials have sent guys to check out your apartment, do they really leave the ground-level back window unguarded? (And hey, as for you, do you leave it unlocked?) The heroes get into a lot of tight spots, and aside from the logical flaws I think the action is handled very well. Held my attention, anyway ...

This movie is filled with so many idiotic moments, that you wonder how it ever got made. For example, they get into the sewers from the Capitol and while they're in the sewers you can see signs pointing to various government buildings, and then they come up in the middle of the street! I highly doubt that government buildings would provide public access through the city sewer system. Anyways, I gave this a 2 instead of a 1 just because of its comic value. I laughed the whole way through at the idiocy of everyone involved in this movie.

I just saw this on a local independent station in the New York City area. The cast showed promise but when I saw the director, George Cosmotos, I became suspicious. And sure enough, it was every bit as bad, every bit as pointless and stupid as every George Cosmotos movie I ever saw. He's like a stupid man's Michael Bey--with all the awfulness that accolade promises. There's no point to the conspiracy, no burning issues that urge the conspirators on. We are left to ourselves to connect the dots from one bit of graffiti on various walls in the film to the next. Thus, the current budget crisis, the war in Iraq, Islamic extremism, the fate of social security, 47 million Americans without health care, stagnating wages, and the death of the middle class are all subsumed by the sheer terror of graffiti. A truly, stunningly idiotic film.

They make everything too easy in this film. It sort of reminded me of Indiana Jones where he hides on the outside of a submarine during an ocean crossing. Everybody knows everything that's going on, it's just real easy to get anyplace you want in the White House. I don't even know why I watched half of it. Because I like Charlie Sheen and Donald Sutherland. I expect the usual ability to dodge bullets from every angle, and be able to run faster than a motorcycle (usually it's faster than a car in a garage or a allyway). It was silly, mostly, and I didn't even know then had a ten-story elevator in the White House. Anyway, anything conspiratorial is always interesting.

A lively little B-Movie political thriller that utilizes high-tech surveillance but is hampered by a low-budget. An energetic exercise with not much intrigue but a whole lot of gun-play. A psycho-killer and a band of conspirators, that are rarely really referenced or fleshed out, attempt to pull of a presidential assassination, so they turn D.C. into a mini war zone chasing one potential foe. The reason for this is not very clear and the convenient contrivances abound. But it all doesn't matter in this nifty looking movie that has a good deal of style and it is relentless in its montage of cat and mouse shenanigans. Never boring, and that makes up for its limitations and easy essaying.

I don't know what is so bad about this movie.The cast performing well and being Charlie Sheen,Donald Sutherland,Linda Hamilton,Stephen Lang,Nicholas Turturro,Ben Gazzara,and the film having tons of action and a great score by Bruce Broughton and being directed by George P. Cosmatos how in the wide,wide world can you go wrong?Lang was really the ultimate villain!I really loved his role and performed neatly and perfectly!If there is a movie with at least one of these great actors its a must see or at least it is with Me!If you are looking for a good action packed conspiracy movie with the above mention cast then check this one out as I recommend it very much!

MST3K fodder. It's so bad it's actually worth seeing just for that reason. There are some hilarious things in it, such as the mysterious device the bad guy is seen working on for the whole movie, that turns out to be this tiny helicopter that flutters around carrying and firing a machine gun without so much as a wobble, but is brought down by a bag of balloons (the kind they release at political conventions). Many other wonderful touches of that sort. Stars Charlie Sheen. There's one scene where he spends five minutes recording a conversation, only to drop the microcassette in the Potomac River by accident. If they'd cast Emilio Estevez in the part that never would've happened.