I'm not going to wax eloquent with my words, just straight forward. This movie is fantastic and the end twist is a good jaw dropper. I get sick of reading reviews of just "audience" and they try to get all technical with their review. It is a great movie, you are not a professional critic getting paid to be edgy, so just stop it! Anyone who is giving a review that's picking this movie apart or saying it just wasnt that well done is 1. Doesnt know how to just watch a great movie and enjoy it. Or 2. Is trying to he smarter than they really are. Just enjoy a great movie for what it is and stop trying to pick every fricken aspect of it apart. Bridges and Robbins were absolutely fantastic in this conspiracy movie I highly recommend it.

Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges go all out, but Arlington Road is just weird. The plot offers a few intriguing twists, but the suspense drags, and the ending is unrewarding.

Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins stars in this very original thriller. I thought Tim Robbins did an excellent job as the bad guy and Jeff Bridges is as always good.This movie is one of the better thrillers I have seen, it has some very creepy scenes and the ending is one of a kind.I have read that many people was unsatisfied with the ending,but I must say that I really liked it.It shows that it does not always go the way we want and that life is not always fair. I will not spoil anything so I am just going to say that this is a movie you have to see and I promise that it will be one of the better movies you have seen in a while.

My fav movie and the last scene gets me every time!!! Everyone except YOU omg

This film is significantly better than many reviews give it credit for. Suspending disbelief can be a valid part of a viewing experience after all.

Pretty good late 90's thriller with a nice twist!

This is actually a very good movie.

A mind-blowing suspenseful thriller!

A deeply unplesent time despite the cast.

A fever dream of imagination that only maintains a suspension of disbelief in a narrative briefly. You might be entertained between the opening scene and the point when the (ironically named) Professor Faraday becomes a full fledged conspiracy theorist about 30 minutes in. Outside of that the entire movie gives you the feeling that it was made for (and by) people who live under a rock and have a paranoid worldview that revolves entirely around themselves and emotional fringe theories based on rhetoric.

Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) is a history professor at George Washington University specializing in terrorism. His FBI agent wife Leah died in the line of duty in a Ruby Ridge-style standoff, and Michael now lives with his 9-year-old son Grant in Reston, Virginia. He is still friends with Leah's partner Whit Carver, and is dating his former graduate student Brooke (Hope Davis). Upon finding a severely injured boy named Brady stumbling in his neighborhood, Michael rushes him to the hospital, where the wounds are determined to be caused by fireworks. Michael meets Brady's parents, structural engineer Oliver Lang (Tim Robbins) and housewife Cheryl (Joan Cusack), discovering they are his neighbors. They become friends, and their sons join the Discoverers, a Boy Scouts-style group. In casual conversation, Oliver expresses his sympathy for Leah's death by displaying potentially violent anti-government beliefs. This, and the cause of Brady's injuries, arouses suspicion in Michael. He also finds blueprints in Oliver's possession that are not for his purported building project, and receives misdirected mail suggesting Oliver lied about his college years. Brooke and Whit dismiss his concerns as paranoia. Michael takes his class on a field trip to the site where Leah was killed, and excoriates the FBI for igniting the standoff after failing to probe the besieged family. His students appear uneasy. Michael reluctantly lets Grant go to a Discoverers camp with Brady. His research reveals that Oliver was born William Fenimore and tried to blow up a Kansas post office at age 16. Oliver discovers Michael's interest and confronts him, stating that his immature act (in revenge for the government's role in his father's suicide) cost him imprisonment and a new identity to hide his past from his children, which he regrets. Michael appears to let the matter drop. However, Brooke later spots Oliver swapping cars and exchanging metal boxes with strangers. From a payphone, she leaves Michael a message lending validity to his suspicions, but is discovered by Cheryl... Rotten Tomatoes consensus stating; "A suspenseful thriller led by strong cast performances built around a somewhat implausible story." Roger Ebert, wrote of the film: Arlington Road is a thriller that contains ideas. Any movie with ideas is likely to attract audiences who have ideas of their own, but to think for a second about the logic of this plot is fatal. (via Wikipedia) The storyline with how well do you know your neighbour we have seen several times before. "Arlington Road" feels just like a repetition of "Blown Away" also starring Jeff Bridges with him running around screaming with a face in agony. "Arlington Road" is stretched to the limit and the tension and excitement is missing to my mind.

This is my favorite movie. I have watched it several hundred times now…It was 1999. New Years Eve- the eve of the New Millenium, Y2K and even some would say "the end of the world" but no…that didn't happen. So I am a freshman in highschool. I refuse to watch horror movies of any sort bc well into my 20's I was afraid of the dark and had to sleep with the lights on. (Anytime it's time to go to bed, my brain goes "Hey!!!! Remember that really scary scene in IT where he becomes the moon and then pops out from under the bed?" Because who really needs sleep 😂). So my parents put this movie in and immediately it's super creepy music, photos of houses are turning red, there's a little boy stumbling down the middle of the road…dripping blood…nope. I make them pause it, re-read the back of the cover and there's no horror stuff (I'm confused?) Anyway. This is not a movie too watch once or twice. EVERY time i watch this movie, there's a new piece connected to another piece. This is the conspiracy theory movie of all movies! My favorite part in this movie is when Jeff Bridges aka Prof Michael- asks the class how they felt when the oklahoma bomber was on the loose (panic, fear). And then- when they named the man they said was responsible. And he was gone, he was no more. A sense of safety returns. Fear- that's gone. Because you know his name. (There are so many food for thought questions, where should you draw the line at boundaries, mass hysteria, how well do you really know anyone. Who can you trust?) And that the media will feed you misinformation. As facts. Hold accountable one person by the many who set him up.

Suspense movie starring Jeff Bridges.

While I'd admit this film may not be as "good" as I judged it in younger days, it would be impossible for me to watch, or even hear this film mentioned, without thinking of a fellow movie lover I miss very much. I remember the first time I saw this, and all the surrounding circumstances, quite clearly. It was a totally spontaneous watch as I was waiting for someone else with plans to head out before being invited to sit down as this was starting on cable. Two hours later the credits were rolling and we were sharing a wtf style laugh. The person who showed this to me had already seen it but, true to character, appeared just as excited to quietly watch me discover and digest all the twists and turns making up this narrative. This film remained a reference point between us as well for many years when discussing or comparing the same twisty aspects in other movies. Sometimes movies are special not because what is in them but for the memories and connections you make with the people you watch with. 6.5/10

Eventhough somewhat implausible, this movie is one ove the most tense films i've ever seen. It also has one of the most memorable endings i've ever seen that leads to this movie being at the very least not a forgettable, middle of the road thriller.

A gripping thriller, with real life stakes, and has a lot to say, sometimes doesn't know what side of the coin it wants to be on, but the ending will stick with you and make you rethink the narrative placed out in the world from real events

It definitely isn't without its flaws, but it's a good thriller. It's a slow-burner during the first half, and a little too much actually. But it manages to catch itself up by rapping up some Hitchcockian thrills during the second half, just before gluing you to your sear for the last twenty minutes. I was pleased by Jeff Bridge's lead performance, I felt that he put in a good amount of heart and passion into it. And Tim Robbins was good at playing a scary, demented terrorist. That blank/angry-looking facial expression that he sometimes did sticks with you. What honorable aspect that I found is that Arlington Road fits into its time, being released in the 1990s, a period of concern and fear about the rise of armed-militias and domestic terrorism in the United-States. It also has themes of fatherhood and the ordinariness of evil. The writing is average enough, with a couple plot holes here and there that could have been elaborated more, but there are also a couple twists which I was not expecting for sure. Overall, Arlington Road is a satisfying and sometimes thrilling neo-noir movie. Recommended!!

It was interesting, but got all too smarty-pants. There's no way in hell Oliver could have pulled it off with "so many" "so called" connections. Felt like complete bullshit at times.

A steadily built sense of tension lingers amongst the tightly written character that culminates in a smart and intriguing premise that strikes far too close to home for comfort.

It shares similarities - in terms of its premise, with other movies. Agree with this review - https://emanuellevy.com/review/arlington-road/