True Confessions
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Charles Durning, Ed Flanders, Kenneth McMillan, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall Director: Ulu Grosbard Brand: Sony Cinematographer: Owen Roizman Producer: Irwin Winkler Producer: James D. Brubaker Producer: Robert Chartoff Writer: Gary S. Hall Writer: Joan Didion Writer: John Gregory Dunne DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 108 minutes DVD Release Date: 2007-04-17 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) |
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Movie Reviews of True Confessions
Movie Review: Hopelessly Flawed
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm surprised that "True Confessions" has received such a large number of enthusiastic and positive reviews. To be sure, the film stars Robert Duvall (our greatest actor), Robert De Niro (another great actor, despite making an ass of himself over the past 20 years or so), and Charles Durning (an exceptional character actor). And Burgess Meredith is terrific, as always. Nevertheless, "True Confessions" is just this side of unwatchable. The main problem is the incoherent storyline. The desperate and tortured attempt to connect the murder with the land developer's corruption and the Archdiocese's venality fails miserably and completely. It's irrelevant that the murderer and his victim are associated with the land developer or that the victim once briefly met the priest. What does the murder have to do with the morally shabby relationship between the land developer and the Archdiocese? Nothing. To contend otherwise is sheer sophistry. I'm all for tough-guy cynicism, but not if it's ersatz, not if the price to pay for it is a plot devoid of logical interconnectedness.
Give this movie a miss...you won't be missing anything.