Director Aram Rapport
Staring Frank Grillo, Minnie Driver, John Leguizamo & Maggie Q
Rated M
Score 4/6

In the not so distant future, a team of white collar criminals are enlisted by the Federal government to thwart a cyber-attack that threatens to bankrupt the United States of America.

Just in case you have a bit of a hard time finding this one the movie’s title was changed to The Crash from Jekyll Island by the film’s distributor Vertical Entertainment and in international markets (as far as I know) was changed to Conspiracy.

Even though is technically a ‘crime thriller’ I would argue that it also has elements of horror in the same way that The Big Short did. Though considering this is not based on a true story Conspiracy probably is not as terrifying as The Big Short. I’m not overly familiar with director Aram Rappaport’s work (though I suppose it’s understandable considering that this is the third movie that he has directed) and he should be congratulated for writing a movie with such an interesting concept, though I can’t help but think that he might have introduced the movie’s twist to early. I have to send this question out there into the universe and ask “Mr. Rappaport have you got some sort of moral objections to the use of camera stands?” I only ask this because I found that the shaky camera work through movie got very annoying towards the end. I can understand shaky camera work in documentaries but not crime thriller like Conspiracy.

There was a solid cast, though I wouldn’t say that everybody who was cast would be familiar to everybody. I have to admit that it has been a while since I last saw few people cast in a feature film role. I thought that Frank Grillo was good choice because he had the look of stereotypical “Slick Stockbroker”. Based purely on the fact that I have a spinal cord personally I would have liked to have seen an actor with the appropriate disability cast in John Leguizamo’s role as George Diebold, if such an actor was available*.

*Editor’s Note: People with a disability being portrayed in a movie in a positive light is a great thing, and if these characters have to be portrayed by an actor without a disability, so be it. Though the importance of disabled characters being portrayed by disabled actors because one its very important to see people like you, however you are on screen. And two i am willing to bet that somewhere in the world there is somebody with a disability sitting in front of a screen watching a movie who might dream of being an actor but might not have to courage to do anything about it. And when they see that disabled actor on screen they might say to themselves “they can do that, why can’t I?”