Wavester 2 names will draw you in (Hopkins/Pacino) the storyline will make you wish you didn't. And something tells me that was the whole premise of this movie, to get you draw in because of the actors involved. I wont go into anymore detail because the other reviewers have put it nicely. I only wish I read the reviews before I watched the movie. At least I watched it for free on Vudu.

Martin Bradley This convoluted so-called 'thriller' is so hard to follow you get the impression they made it up as they went along. It is, however, given something of a lift by the performances of its two Oscar-winning 'guest' stars though, apart from money, what drew either Al Pacino or Anthony Hopkins to this is a mystery. Given the material they have to work with, they are both excellent but the movie is such rubbish you probably won't want to spend too much time with them and certainly no time with anyone else. Dire.

degiulii Conspiracy - Conspiracy is an American thriller directed by Shintaro Shimosawa, the producer of The Grudge. It was released in Italy on June 15 and in the cast are Al Pacino and Anthony Hopkins both won the Oscar and this is their first film together. The original title of the film is Misconduct - "Conspiracy" there we invented us in Italy - and talks about Ben Cahill, an ambitious young lawyer played by Josh Duhamel, who is in the midst of a struggle between a prominent lawyer (Pacino) and the leader of a corrupt pharmaceutical company (Hopkins). Cahill gets the incriminating documents to the pharmaceutical company and speaks to the character played by Pacino. Bad things happen and Cahill must find out the truth or lose everything he has. It looks nice. According to virtually all written reviews about the movie, it is not.In his early days in Italian Conspiracy - The conspiracy was among the five most popular films and grossed more than 50 thousand euro: a fair result, considering that it is the weekly day of June. And it is a better result than what the film has had in the US, where it grossed around 24 thousand dollars, and especially in the UK, where in its first weekend in theaters - one in which the films are usually most their collections - has grossed nearly 100 pounds (125 euro). There was a second weekend because the film was withdrawn from sale. Conspiracy - Conspiracy has cost around 10 million euro; Variety wrote that was screened in five British films and in each of them received about 25 euro: it means that on average the film has been seen by 4-5 people in each UK cinemas where it was shown. Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Conspiracy - The conspiracy is "a predictable and forgettable film" and that the great days of Hopkins and Pacino are according to him long gone. Stephen Holden of The New York Times was more lenient with Pacino and Hopkins - "go to their usual pace" and one wonders how they were deceived to get them to act in the film - but is equally ruthless with the film, which is "made by a director and the writers who usually worked in low-budget horror movie "and it shows," is ridiculously clumsy, mounted in a senseless, incomprehensible, no suspense, is a film in which one of the bad guys continually invests people with a motorcycle". Tim Robey of the Telegraph wrote that Conspiracy - Conspiracy "is the worst movie that Anthony Hopkins and Al Pacino have done in their careers": Robey said he had seen the films considered the worst made by the two actors - "I saw Instinct - Instinct primordial, Jack and Jill, 88 minutes, and Premonitions The rite and none of these is a film that I would like to have seen "- but no one is still able to gamble with conspiracy - conspiracy in terms of ugliness. Robey gave the film one star out of five. The same rating given by the Guardian, whose critic Wendy Ide wrote that it is "terrible" and is a big stain on Hopkins curriculum and Pacino. It could be shown in film schools as a practical example of how not to make a film. Every decision is wrong: whether it's the plot, casting, photography, sound and probably even the canteen menus during filming. [...] The director, Shimosawa, is fond of harmful and slow camera movements, which eventually will stop at innocuous things, such as a refrigerator. The soundtrack is thunderously stupid. And the plot is so muddled that one wonders if anyone actually read the script before giving the green light to funding for the film. It does a little 'hard to find but there is also a positive review for Conspiracy - Conspiracy: is written by Chuck Wilson of Village Voice. It's a little 'tangled and sometimes wonder if it's ironic, and perhaps it is: Wilson writes that "it is a pity that the film was snubbed" because the debut of Shimosawa director has a "elegant visual style and a plot full so many and so absurd twists that the film becomes an appreciable melodrama. " Wilson writes that the film "makes us think of Brian De Palma's Carrie Vintage - The look of Satan and Dressed to Kill" and "there are beautiful, long and straight shots in which the camera goes even further than the actors, as if trying another turning point in the plot. " Wilson adds that all this might seem like something that disturbs and confuses, it is not: "It is talented," and the director "should start organizing meetings for his next film." The only place they seem to agree with Wilson is South Korea, where Conspiracy - Conspiracy grossed just under a million Euros.

leonblackwood Review: Although Hopkins & Pacino are 2 of the best method actors in the game, there names aren't enough to pull in audiences. The director had the chance to make an all time classic with these 2 top actors but he chose to make an mediocre thriller, which had a sketchy script and a unrealistic plot. Hopkins plays Arthur Denning, whose a successful pharmaceutical business man, who goes out with Emily Hynes (Malin Akerman). Emily becomes friends, on Facebook, with her ex-boyfriend, Ben Cahill (Josh Duhamel), whose an ambitious lawyer, who is willing to do anything to climb to the top. When Emily gives him some secret documents about Arthurs business, Ben takes it to the head of his company, Charles Abrams (Al Pacino), who tells him to go ahead with the case, even though Arthur is a brutal business man. From there, the movie goes down many different avenues, of murder, kidnap and deception. Hopkins is only in a few scenes, so he totally got wasted but Pacino puts in a good performance, even though he didn't play the lead. Josh Duhamel didn't bring the intensity that his role needed, and most of his decisions throughout the movie, we're totally ridiculous. For a lawyer, he should have known that his DNA was going to be all over the crime scene and I don't know why he just didn't go to the police right from the beginning. Anyway, it's a watchable movie, mainly because there is loads of twists and turns throughout but the director didn't take full advantage of the great cast. Watchable!Round-Up: At 76 years old, Al Pacino hasn't made a decent film since the awful Jack & Jill. With 4 projects in the pipeline, which include, The Irishman, Retribution, The Trap and Where the White Man Runs Away, I really don't think that he will hit the form that he had during the Godfather days. Anyway, this movie was made by, first time director, Shintaro Shimosawa, who has produced and written mostly for TV, which explains why this movie was such a big task for him. He must have thought that he won the lottery when Pacino and Hopkins decided to accept there roles but be should have done more scenes with them together, accept for concentrating on Josh, who seemed to be played by everyone. On the plus side, it doesn't drag on get boring, because there is enough material to keep the audience interested but the silly actions from the lead character made me question the dodgy storyline.Budget: $11million Worldwide Gross: $938, 750I recommend this movie to people who are into their drama/thrillers, starring Josh Duhamel, Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino, Alice Eve, Malin Akerman, Byung-hun Lee and Julia Stiles. 4/10