Doubt was better.

Rating: 5/10 (19 March 2016)

I'm not sure why anyone sets out to make a dramatised version of such a story, if you don't have a victim or a priest or a reporter at the heart of it. I agree that the story-telling is clear and unfolds in a way that adds to your knowledge of the history of events, but that could be achieved in a documentary too. I don't agree that the acting was great, it felt mediocre to me, but with its ensemble cast you have weak characters, no character development and so very little for the actors to get their teeth into. It felt to me like any drama or tension was crow-barred in for the purposes of giving the audience some excitement, when for example Mark Ruffalo's character is running to the records office and banging on the door as it closes. Such moments seemed forced and straight out of the cliché book. Commendable to make a film on this subject and bring people's attention to the crimes that were allowed to continue to take place,but a worthy subject does not make a great film. For me the direction was really dull and this looked like it could have been made for TV. A much better film on the subject is 'Doubt' without doubt.