This isn't exactly a conspiracy theorist's dream. While it points to a seedy underworld where a privileged few control the masses, it also posits the question, "but are things really that bad?". This is a faux-documentary, with the bulk of its final act shot by hidden cameras. If you are looking for a rich visual experience, this isn't the movie you want to watch. The movie's main character, Aaron, claims that we are slaves to a secret society, but his friend Jim really isn't so certain. Jim goes along with Aaron's plans to infiltrate the secret club, even though he is perfectly happy with his life at home with his wife and child. That infiltration is eerie enough, but it underwhelms. What doesn't is the twist of an ending which I liked and subsequently forced me to lift my rating score a couple of points. I'd like to say that I saw it coming, but I don't think a lot of other viewers will anticipate what happens, either.

If The Conspiracy were a slow-cooked stew, somebody forgot to turn the heat up — this overly long found-footage mystery moves so leisurely you’ll wonder if the filmmakers were really testing out some new “relaxation documentary” format. Sure, it tries to be clever with its faux-doc setup about secret societies, but between the predictable script and ending that you’ll see coming from miles away, it mostly feels like an extended YouTube rabbit hole with bad acting thrown in for spicy flavor. By the time the credits roll, you might chuckle more at how seriously everyone takes themselves than actually buy into the paranoia — but hey, at least it’s not boring enough to make you conspiracy-theorize about quitting halfway through.

Like unpacking boxes: the first couple of minutes are a blast, but then it quickly gets tedious. As a self-proclaimed found footage slut (I like anything found footage and I don't care about the quality), I was shouting "Shoot this directly into my veins!" during the mockumentary first act. But then the film changed into more traditional found footage for the second and third acts, and the film lost the conspiracy theorist edge [I'm anti-conspiracy theory, fwiw] that was so intriguing at the beginning.

Now this is just silly

Doesn't really need a horror tag. The movie doesn't get scary until the end, it's just eerie and suspenseful almost the entire way through.