Child Molesting Priests: Worst Human Filth in History!

Rating: 8/10 (13 January 2016)

Why the FBI didn't attack the Catholic Church like they did the mafia is a mystery to me. They could have used the RICO act to convict dozens of high-ranking officials for the disgusting criminal conspiracy that they worked feverishly to cover-up at every step along the way. Although I am a life-long atheist I grew up in a Catholic family and was forced to go to mass every Sunday. Of course, the priests wouldn't have preyed on a kid like me because my father would have beat them to death with a bible had he found out. This film describes how priests chose children from broken families and on boys who showed signs of homosexuality. This isn't about some priests smoking pot or betting on football games; this is about men using their exalted status as servants of their church to rape children. Catholics who deny this horrible abuse are accessories in these horrible of crimes, a crime which even among prison inmates is the lowest, vilest act.
Spotlight does the job that the press has largely been unable to do in recent years: bring an important story to light. Since the days when the story first broke in the Boston Globe the print media has been ripped to pieces by budget cuts and only a couple of truly good newspapers exist in America today. So who will do this sort of investigation in the future? More than likely it just won't be done because TV news doesn't have the patience to investigate anything other than a terrorist bombing or a celebrity sighting.
Michael Keaton was the big surprise for me in this film. I've always considered him more of a comedian than an actor but I'll have to update his status in my thinking. Liev Schreiber is brilliant as the voice of reason at every step in the process.