| Original Score: D | Sep 7, 2011

Bland, interminable chase scenes take up so much of the story -- the hackneyed plot doesn't need much exposition -- that the sheer repetitiveness begins to amaze you.

| Jul 28, 2009

Sadly, Sheen doesn't even look profound. Like a zombie who's spent too much time in the gym, he blunders heavily from one stunt to the next, his pursed lips conveying nothing more than pique.

| Jun 24, 2006

The climactic assassination attempt... is so ridiculous there's only one real danger: that the president (and the audience) will laugh to death.

Full Review | Apr 29, 2005

The film is so contemptuous of its audience it doesn't even bother to present a surface resemblance to reality.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | May 20, 2003

When Charlie Sheen and Donald Sutherland appear in any movie, you should be wary. Their contracts seem to demand nothing but corny formula.

| Jan 22, 2002

There isn't a brain in its empty little head, or in its assembly-line story, which is about how Charlie Sheen pauses occasionally between ludicrous action scenes, some of them ripped off from better films.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

This is the sort of film in which informants are shot in the head from across the street just as they are about to reveal the name of the traitor behind the scheme.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Some political junkies have an inordinate yen for movies that hop-skip around familiar Washington, D.C., locales and inside the bowels of a sinister White House. Members of this club may get some ephemeral amusement out of Shadow Conspiracy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The plot, as it eventually unfolds, is so absurd and leads to such a silly climax that much of the audience's good will is burned away.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000