Forgettable movie.Nothing special in this movie.Mel Gibson Terrible Overacting ruin the movie.julia roberts is OK.Nothing new to see in this movie.Worst storyline, acting, direction, script.......Totally Crap...... Don't watch it

Let's talk about sadness. Hey, IMDb, let's talk about a type of sadness that lingers that follows along that haunts in bitter eternity across your life. Or, I guess there is this movie, I could review it? Actors got phone calls, which lead to meetings. Those meetings resulted in lawyers receiving phone calls. Those lawyers had meetings and from those meetings it was deemed that this movie could be made. An insurance company gets their cut. Yes, at least one prostitute was paid on a production company credit card, it's cool. Also there is a soundtrack which can still be purchased. At this very moment, you could go on Amazon.com and find a copy of this movie or it's soundtrack. Sadness.

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.

Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) is a paranoid NYC cabbie. He sees conspiracy theories everywhere and is willing to tell everybody about them. He has a troubled past and is obsessed with Justice department lawyer Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts) whom he rescued from a mugging 6 months ago. Then he gets kidnapped by spooks, tortured by Dr. Jonas (Patrick Stewart) and it's a matter of figuring out which theory of his got him into trouble.This movie wants to be and NEEDS to be a paranoid thriller. The audience has to question Jerry's sanity. However it never shows that he has hallucinations. Therefore it's never questioned that those things actually happened. Also his escapes come off as really silly and extremely unbelievable. I kept wanting the inner dark gritty paranoia conspiracy 70s drama to rise up but it's constantly stuck in a 90s action movie. There is an interesting idea of a movie. However there is light tone in the movie that is perpetuated by Mel Gibson's jokey performance and the FUN action scenes. This is not dark enough. If it wants to be a fun action movie, the lead should really be Julia Roberts. Mel should be the wacky co-star. My last complaint is the awkward attempt at romance. They have no chemistry at all and are better off not even going down that road. It cheapens Jerry's protection of her. The movie just wears down until the story becomes meaningless.