True Confessions
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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.
Movie Review: MGM DVD TRANSFER
Summary: 2 Stars
This is not a review of the film.
Only the latest DVD from MGM which provides both a full screen version on one side and a widescreen version on the other.
The widescreen version is not an anamorphic transfer which basically means it sucks.
It looks like a compromised 1:66 or 1:71 to 1 transfer that has been stretched to fit a 1:85 to 1 widescreen TV frame. If you change your TV's aspect ratio to 14:9 it looks passable until the credits appear and then you'll notice the black bars (top and bottom)appear showing that your chosen aspect ratio is not right either! Up to then (the credits)the picture quality is only fair then when the credits appear and it gets tighter it looks very good but after the credits end so does the superior quality image on the 14:9 frame. Why on earth don't they just do one proper 1:85 to 1 ANAMORPHIC transfer on this terrific film and stop monkeying around with half ass letterbox and full frame crap?
Movie Review: my true confession
Summary: 2 Stars
Saw this movie when it came out in the theaters ever so long ago, and haven't seen it since until this week. Having watched it, I am left scratching my head wondering what I found so appealing in this movie 30 years ago. I have no problems with the powerhouse acting of the two leads or for that matter the other characters as well. Excellent performances. Beyond that, the story seems slow and at times disjointed. I rewound several times to make sense of what was going on. I appreciate the many comments of reviewers here who have helped fill in my gaps of understanding. That being said, other reviewers who gave it more stars affirm that it's a movie more about character study than about story.