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.

I expected this movie to be good. The one review published here to date suggested that it would be. The DVD box, not surprisingly, promised it would. The ideas seemed lofty. The cast - well, Kingsley, anyway, suggested competence. What could go wrong?The answer is: Almost everything. This is a truly awful film. Baldwin is up (or down) to his usual standard. Great hair. Bad voice. Poor acting. Mostly, it's the writing that undermines everyone. Some of the situations that were supposed to be tense or exciting were just laughable. The relationship between Baldwin and the judge just seemed silly. The profanity - and I can't recall myself saying this before - seemed gratuitous. The Hebrew dialog sounded phonetically learned, which is pretty funny since these characters were supposed to be orthodox Jews. Maybe this was a great book, or a great idea for a book. But as cinema, it was rock bottom. Don't waste your time or money.

Ben Kingsley and Amy Irving are becoming famous playing Jewish people. Kingsley played Dr. Herman Tarnower in that awful HBO film about him and Ms. Irving was memorable in "Yentl."Amy lights the sabbath candle as their little boy coughs up a storm and runs a high fever. Desperate, they take the child to the hospital where they are ignored. This picture is excellent in the sense that it depicts too well what goes on in so many of our emergency rooms.The child dies and in his anger, Harry Fertig (Kingsley) kills the 3 people that he believed were responsible for doing nothing.You would think that the movie would settle down into the moral dilemma whether or not Fertig was justified in the actions he took. No, it is much more than that. Baldwin, who defends Fertig, shall eventually fall for his wife and uncover why Fertig's firm wants him to cop an insanity plea. They have been involved in infesting the waters of N.Y. with toxic poisons. Baldwin wants to run for District Attorney. At the end, he does the right thing but ultimately ruins his political career.A wonderful film detailing moral values in a society desperate for them.

The Confession is a moving film about an attorney's struggle to regain his soul. That sounds awfully high-flown, but the screenwriter and the filmmakers handle it with grace and economy. Alec Baldwin and Amy Irving make the material emotional without being melodramatic. There's also a nice legal mystery to go along with the characters' moral journeys.