The conspiracy in the shadows
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The conspiracy in the shadows |
| Original title | Shadow Conspiracy |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | George P. Cosmatos |
| script | Ric Gibbs , Adi Hasak |
| production | Terry Collis , Buzz Feitshans , Andrew G. Vajna |
| music | Bruce Broughton |
| camera | Buzz Feitshans IV |
| cut | Robert A. Ferretti |
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The conspiracy in the shadow (original title: Shadow Conspiracy ) is an American action thriller directed by George P. Cosmatos from 1997 .
action
Bobby Bishop is a special adviser to the US President . He discovers a conspiracy aimed at killing the president. The Russian-born professor Yuri Pochenko, who turned to Bishop for help after a massacre among scientists in the service of the American government, was shot dead in the street while he was there. Bishop, on the other hand, manages to escape.
Bishop, who is on the staff of the White House , receives support from journalist friend Amanda Givens. Jacob Conrad, Bishop's superior, is the mastermind behind the assassination attempt on the president. The president is about to die as he wants to bring about radical political changes following his recent re-election. At a party, the attack on the US president is said to take place with the help of a remote-controlled model helicopter. Bishop thwarts the attempted murder and shoots the assassin. After Conrad realizes his defeat, he kills himself.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the villains' “stereotypical” characters were more likely to cause boredom than excitement. The "winding" plot and the "moronic" dialogues would not captivate the audience. Charlie Sheen is a bad cast in the role of Bobby Bishop, he seems implausible. Linda Hamilton and Donald Sutherland are no better. Berardinelli continued to criticize the camera work and wrote that the film looked like a cheap production.
Roger Ebert described the film in the Chicago Sun-Times on January 31, 1997 as "mindless". The "ludicrous" ("ludicrous") action scenes were stolen from better films. At the end of his review, Ebert advised that only viewers with a “very, very short memory” should watch the film.
"Routine political thriller that plays with the horror of complete surveillance, but does not understand how to make critical capital out of the connection between enthusiasm for technology and its thoughtless instrumentalization."
“Even worse than the criminally illogical story, amateurish action sequences and mindless dialogues are the shrill clothes that the apparently sadistic costume designer forced the otherwise so nice-looking Linda Hamilton into. And yet the fiddling is symptomatic of the film: no part goes with the other. "
background
The film was in Baltimore , in Richmond ( Virginia ) and in Washington, DC rotated. Its production amounted to an estimated 45 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 2.15 million in US cinemas.
Web links
- Shadow Conspiracy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Shadow Conspiracy at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The Conspiracy in the Shadows in the online film database