Confession

Despite all three leads pulling their weight, the scenes only build up tepid dramatic heat and offer no real Rashomon-style perspective shifts.

Confession is an entertaining body of work.

The right gimmick movies do interesting things to the form and tempo of storytelling. The wrong ones simply remind us theyre gimmicks.

Catholics know that in their sacrament of reconciliation, the penitent must recite an act of contrition and perform a penance meted out by the officiating priest. Everyone involved with Confession should be expected to do the same.

Despite committed performances by Moyer as the desperate Victor and Meaney as the alternately concerned and bewildered cleric, there are problems that the actors can't solve solely through their work.

A solid small-scale thriller.

Confession has things that the audience may never see coming.

An intriguing setup is never made the most of in this patchy thriller.

So bad you will feel like you sinned just for renting it on VOD and will go to confession