This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Brilliant. Should b a 10. The lessons in this movie are important to all of us as individuals and a society. This is no fairy tale. Companies do this every day. Money is more important than ANYTHING else.One of the best films I have ever seen.

From 2009, The Confession is based on a novel by Sol Yurick.Am ambitious attorney, Roy Bleakie, who has a chance at being the next D.A., is asked to represent the employee of a wealthy friend who has just been arrested for murdering three hospital employees. The man, Harry Fertig (Ben Kingsley) and his wife Sarah (Amy Irving) rushed their extremely ill son to the emergency room of a hospital one night, only to be brushed off by nurses and doctors and being told to "wait your turn" at that busy time. As a result, their little boy dies.Grief-stricken, Harry goes out and shoots them.In all honesty, having dealt with this sort of thing when my mother was ill, I really can't blame him, and if my sister owned a gun, the same thing might have happened. I frankly don't even think that scene was exaggerated.Being a good lawyer, Roy wants to plead not guilty by reason of mental defect. Harry, a devout Jew, knows he has sinned, and wants to honor his son by taking responsibility for what he did. He demands to plead guilty, which is against the wishes of his employer.Roy begins to suggest that the employer's insistence on mental defect has to do with something else, as Fertig was his top financial person.Very slow-moving, in my opinion, with a lot of talk, though the acting was excellent. Someone wrote that "Ben Kingsley is a god." Well, Ben Kingsley is a god, a very powerful actor, and Amy Irving is a goddess, always giving a beautiful performance. Here she plays a woman who has now lost her son and husband, and she's frightened, vulnerable, and confused. It's probably the most complex part in the film, and she's more than up to it. Alec Baldwin for me is much better in comedy. As a dramatic leading man, he is solid, but he relies on those movie techniques like the blank stare. When Al Pacino does it, it's scary. When Alec Baldwin does it, it doesn't register as much. He's also quite soft-spoken (I'm hard of hearing and actually was relying on the Spanish subtitles, which is all they had). I don't mind talky movies if the dialogue is scintillating as in All About Eve. This wasn't. It's still good as it raises some interesting issues and moral questions.

Sol Yurick acquired a great deal of experience while working the streets of New York. His most famous story which received wide acclaim is called 'The Warriors.' Now director Daniel Hugh Jones initiates this fascinating Yurick novel entitled " The Confession. " It's an important story taken from the pages of todays headlines. Harry Fertig (Ben Kingsley) is a well respected, devoted and loving father who's six year old son is suffering from acute appendicitis. Upon rushing him to the Emergency ward of the hospital, he is told his son who needs immediate attention will have to sit, wait and fill out forms. The result; his son dies. Concluding someone has to be held responsible, the grieving father sets out to punish the hospital receiving attendant, (Eric Malabar), the admitting nurse (Becky Ann Baker) and Dr. Mason Gillett. (Mark Ethan) all for putting their own troubles ahead of an emergency patient. After his son's death, Fertig murders all three and then surprisingly enough, surrenders to the police. While awaiting trial for murder, Fertig is given a public defender whom he promptly fires. However, his new defense lawyer Roy Bleakie (Alec Baldwin) is a well connected, ambitious attorney who is instructed by his client to plead him Guilty! With many rich and powerful people concerned his client might be given the death penalty, Bleakie is ready to plead him Not Guilty by reason of insanity. However, Fertig insists, he knew what he did was wrong and is willing to accept punishment, even if it means being executed. The story is intriguing from it's onset and the collected cast does a marvelous job of imbuing understanding, sympathy and deep emotional drama to the characters. All one needs to do is live in our speedy, fast food, hectic style of life to realize what this case is all about. Anyone who has ever been run-over by the uncaring freeway of ambiguity we've created or have experienced the churning frustration we daily endure, know what this movie is all about. The result; this film has become a Classic and is easily recommended to anyone who cares. ****

This is one of those films that has plot elements that someone like Hitchcock and the right script adapters would have made into a classic. The idea of someone being declared mentally incompetent in order to shut him or her up is by no means a new idea, but there is a small twist on it in this film. Fertig, the accountant played by Ben Kingsley, knows too much about the kind of ecological disaster that kills..and would ruin those responsible. It's really handy to have him kill the creeps who failed to give his little son even slightly adequate medical attention in a New York City emergency room. And frankly you will love it that he kills them. The trouble is that religion is mixed in here where it's entirely unnecessary. Someone also forgot that "Death Wish" was a very popular movie. Religious orientation wasn't necessary there.His wife(played by Amy Irving) is a boring character which is not a plus in a film like this..The attorney who is to get Fertig locked up in a mental institution (played by Alec Baldwin) is only slightly interesting as well. The soundtrack is terrible. There is one wonderful goof, however, - a scene in which Baldwin is at the reservoir talking about how nothing is alive there...except a wonderfully irreverent pigeon who suddenly very casually sits down near him. It's worth seeing this trashy film because of the pigeon.Hitchcock..at his best..would have known what to do. So too David O.Selznick. It's too bad..The plot had some good parts..The film is a real dud..EXCEPT FOR THAT PIGEON who should get an award.