SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

davyd-02237 I haven't seen a film like this in quite a while and hope, thanks to pages like this one that it will be some time away before I see another 1. If, like me, you like the idea that by the end of a Film that those "Good guys" beat the "bad guys" then this isn't for you, Convincing performances from those involved but for me, once seen - that's enough and not a great way to spend a couple of hours, knowing the "guilty" get away with murder and mayhem and no one knows who they are!. Better films than this around

atlasmb "Arlington Road" is a thriller about a college professor (Jeff Bridges as Michael Faraday) who teaches about historic acts of terrorism, and his neighbor (Tim Robbins as Oliver Lang), a smiley, smarmy type who has an equally oily wife (Joan Cusack as Cheryl Lang).Though they live across the street from each other, they never know each other until an unfortunate accident. From the moment they meet, Michael senses something is amiss. Certain facts about his neighbor don't seem to add up. Michael is a naturally inquisitive guy--perhaps a little prone to conspiracy theories--so he takes his own suspicions with a grain of salt.The opinions about "Arlington Road" on this site range from "classic thriller" to "less than average". This is not Hitchcock or "Jaws" or "Alien", but the tension lies beneath the surface and I found the film to be riveting. I do think some viewers will be disappointed with the ending, but it rings true. Bridges is intense and Robbins is laid back, making for a nice contrast. The director, Mark Pellington, uses some nice camera angles to convey Faraday's unbalanced perspective when his life suddenly takes a dramatic turn. But this is no classic; there are too many superior suspense films.Its strength lies in its stars--especially Bridges--whose performances are only slightly undermined by a script that could use more depth. When the conspiracy theory becomes a truly fearful story element, the action develops and resolves too quickly (unlike, say, "North By North West").

inspectors71 As I write this, they are still burying the dead in Orlando, cite of the Pulse night club massacre by Omar Mateen, a jihadi. So don't expect me to be terribly kind to the folks who made this anti- militia, pro-government (sort of) suspenser.We've got a good number of crazy anti-government wingnuts out there, but this movie was rendered obsolete the moment the planes started hitting buildings, maybe before it was even made in 1999. What I found most irritating about Mark Pellington's Arlington Road was that fell into the same old trap that so many Hollywood projects do- -being unable to accept that the greater threat is from radicalized Islam, not nut-jobs up in the Idaho Panhandle, here in Montana, in fundamentalist Mormon communities, Oklahoma City, Waco, Texas. But, gracious, we don't want to offend anyone's sensibilities.As a thriller, AR is pretty darned good, building some real suspense, establishing a solid backstory of Jeff Bridges' wife and Tim Robbins' past. The movie even has Bridges questioning the competence of his late wife's superiors. Heavens! Saying something bad about the Federal Government? An actual attempt to be even- handed?And then Pellington loses control.We get Bridges visiting Robbins' home where a party is going on, and what he stumbles into is more Rosemary's Baby/witches' coven than a lawn party with KC and the Sunshine Band advising everyone to "get down tonight."Then we get the obligatory mad-dash car chase with the laws of physics and common sense being sacrificed for the good of the message.The message being: Those crazy right-wingers are everywhere!Yet, all in all, I'd say Arlington Road was a good investment of 117 minutes. That is, until I turn the tube back to TV, and there's Omar Mateen, ISIS' "Lion of the Caliphate," taking a smirking selfie some time ago. Makes the wingnuts out there in Deer Testicle, Wyoming seem pretty tame.

boris007 1.Slow-paced: not really in a good old fashion story-unraveling way. Just slow 2.Irritating main character: hysterical, insufficiently smart or logical for a university teacher that teaches the subject he so miserably fails at for the whole movie 3.Bad acting: yea, really. all the good actors didn't do well in this one. 4.Dumb ending: the bad guys master plan must have been based on 99% luck and 1% thinking, again: dumb On the positive side I must say I kinda got into it for about 2/3 of the movie (a slow 2/3). After that it was downhill.So is it still good in 2014? No, it is not. I feel that the series like The Killing, Dexter and some movies that I don't recall at the moment raised the bar for criminal thrillers.