Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Missy Powell This film does show Berenger's truly broad range as an actor. It is one of those movies' that stick with you and kind of "haunt" you, in the very good way of being truly memorable, ultra-sexy and different! Bellasario's genius is well known now, but was truly evident in this early work of his.50 Shades of Gray has nothing on the raw sexuality displayed so beautifully by Tom Berenger. My wonderful husband of 30 years has always known that even though Berenger is 16 years my senior, I would have an affair with him in a heart-beat. This film shows exactly why! The ending of this movie leaves you breathless and yearning for more.

manager-125 My problem with the film from the beginning was how hard it was to suspend disbelief for a priest like Michael. From the beginning he is smoking, in a bar, and talking about his d**k. He uses 'hell' and 'shit' so very often, besides drinking tequila and wine when alone with the woman. I realize the author is trying to make a statement about his allure to the worldly side, but it just goes to far, in my opinion. There are so many problems with the plot that you can't stop thinking - 'but what about this?' If the beautiful Angela is so incredibly smart where she has set up her scheme with he painter husband to actually end up with the $5 million, then why is she so dumb as to be in the line of fire to be possibly killed by Zena's bullets in the beginning (only escaped by luck) and finally takes one at the end. A smart girl who knows how to work the mob, and knew Michael was in Geno's family, would have foreseen that. You watch it because you just know the priest is going to give into temptation and ravage Angela, and so you voyeuristically continue to watch. Then you stick around to see how the writer will deal with the fate of a fallen priest. The answer is, he joins the family mafia business, and Madonna in the church sheds a tear. Somehow, the director manages to make it come off less interesting than it sounds when you say it.

Robert J. Maxwell Berenger is the "good son" of Mafia Don, Clark. He's a somewhat bored priest. A girl, Zuniga, rushes into the confessional and admits she was witness to a Mafia killing and is now being hunted by the mob. The people responsible for the killing are none other than Berenger's own family. It gets a little complicated here.Berenger decides to help Zuniga escape to her native Mexico rather than turn her over to his own family for execution. Once across the border, Zuniga seduces Berenger. End of priesthood. Then he discovers that he is the mark in the intricate plot to get Zuniga out of the country. When she's safe, she tells her real lover to kill Berenger.I'm not sure just what kind of flick this is supposed to be. Another inside look at the Mafia? It fails. The rituals -- the burials, the sobbing widow, the solemn laying on of flowers, the men embracing -- are all familiar by now and they seem staged here, as if they were included because they were expected to be included.A tangled love story involving a Latina femme fatale? Too tangled, if you ask me. And after discovering his betrayal, Berenger far too easily turns from compassionate priest to Judas goat.The acting is barely up to professional standards. Zuniga is beautiful, lanky, sexy but seems more suited to lighter roles. Berenger isn't convincing as a priest. Administering extreme unction to a friend, he's almost embarrassing. They dying friend achieves that embarrassment. Dane Clark puts in a decent performance but doesn't look quite right for the role and lacks individuality, the way some television actors do, just walking through the part.Whatever conative kinks existed in the minds of the people who produced this, they weren't realized on screen. Oh, there's a neat scene in which Zuniga slides nudely out of bed, saunters over to the relaxed, alert Berenger, and plants a big smooch on him before undressing him and leading him over to the sack for a hot sex act. But what do you know, folks -- it was a body double and a dream!

Arg-Immortal So we have this priest, son of the mafia, who gets involved with this chick. I wasn't very hopeful on this, but it was the best offer TV could do that day. Not only we have Tom Berenger in top form, the film features Daphne Zuniga (why I had never heard of her before?), and Adrian Paul, way younger and before he put on the Highlander clothes, and in a small role. The plot is excellent, the performances are great and what to say? GO WATCH IT!