Release Date: Sep 20, 1998 Wide
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Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 39
In this action thriller, Aleksander Ivanov (Luciano Saber) is an ordinary cab driver in Bosnia who is thrown into extraordinary circumstances when he is unwittingly drawn into a plot to murder the Vice President of the United States. By being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Ivanov is on hand when the assassin fails to show up and by picking up a fare he's dragged into this murderous scheme. While the assassination doesn't come off, Ivanov needs to clear his conscience and find out who was
Sep 20, 1998 Wide
Jan 28, 2003
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All Critics (4) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (5) | DVD (3)
A mystery that is never mysterious and a thriller lacking thrills.
This is not a good film, but I can appreciate it for what it is. The Placebo Effect is a shitty B knockoff of The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995). It stars the writer, Luciano Saber, as a cab driver, it seems, who stumbles upon a plot to kill the Vice President of the United States. He tells the story after
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