Conspiracy Theory

Not a terrible movie exactly, just a dark, edgy idea relentlessly worn down into mildly diverting blandness by the mega-wattage presence of stars Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts. Jerry Fletcher (Gibson) is a nutty NYC cab driver, the kind whose motormouth rants about the New World Order, fluoridated water and top-secret caches of Nobel Prize-winning sperm stashed under the Rockefeller Center ice-skating rink can turn a 12-block ride into an endurance test. His newest theory: They -- you know, "they" -- are going to assassinate the president by engineering an earthquake during a state visit to Turkey. Alice Sutton (Roberts) is a junior DA haunted by the murder o...