20 Mind Blowing Conspiracy Movies You Must Watch

14. No Way Out

Can we talk about this as if you€™ve all seen it? If you haven€™t and you don€™t know the huge twist that shakes the foundations of this film then just skip this one and carry on to the next film in the list. I want to talk about why I dig the hell out of this conspiracy film but why I dig it is intricately tied to the sheer bizarre lunacy of its very plot that should never in a million years work as wonderfully at engrossing you as what it does. Naval Commander Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) begins a secret affair with society girl Susan Atwell (Sean Young), unaware that she is also the mistress of Secretary of Defence David Brice (Gene Hackman). When Brice suspects that she is playing away behind his back, he accidentally kills her in a fit of rage and enlists his loyal aide, Scott Pritchard (Will Patton) to cover up the crime. Pritchard comes up with the perfect decoy €“ he €œinvents€ the notion of a Russian Spy, hiding within the governmental structure and who was responsible for the murder of Miss Atwell. He also hires Farrell to investigate the murder and hunt down the €œSpy€. Farrell becomes stuck when his personal connection to the deceased reveals that all the clues and forensics that he uncovers point straight back at him. In a desperate, race against time Farrell realises that he must circumvent the actual evidence and find a way of bringing the case back to the door of Senator Brice, all the while protecting the biggest secret of all €“ that the fiction of the €œRussian Spy€ is actually fact and that his identity is none other than Commander Farrell himself! How batshit crazy is THAT? This is a taut, stylish, fast-paced nail-biter that has absolutely no right to be as good as it actually is. It should be nothing more than a €˜guilty pleasure€™ but thanks to Costner and Hackman, Robert Garland€™s tense screenplay and the assured direction of Roger Donaldson, this is a film that refuses to be forgotten or brushed aside!