Moment of Truth

Mystery Thriller

Eagle Entertainment

R4 DVD

I nearly passed up this movie at first – it looked like just another soggy love story. I’m glad I didn’t, for it is one of the most convoluted plots I have seen in a long time. It is well acted, well filmed, and I couldn’t turn it off until I had watched it right through.

Don McKay is a very lonely high school janitor. He gets a letter from his high school girlfriend that she is terminally ill and wants to see him. Although he was the cause of a childhood accident that left some kids dead and he knows he won’t be welcome in his hometown, he goes there anyway. She tells him that she doesn’t have long to live but that she would like to marry him and spend her last month or so with him. Her housekeeper is a nasty type who clearly doesn’t like Don. Neither does her doctor, who is clearly fond of her as well.

Next morning the doctor attacks Don and Don is forced to kill him in self-defence. That’s just the start. One by one the bodies mount up and Don gets in deeper. It seems everyone in the area has it in for him and they all seem to know something that Don doesn’t – even his girlfriend. For that matter Don has a secret of his own, as well. The plot has so many twists and turns, double and triple crosses, that it’s hard to work out who is doing what to who – just that Don’s in the middle of it and his life is in danger.

The film is a fine piece of work. Thomas Haden Church is great as Don and works his way through the film in an almost permanent case of bewilderment – understandable, really. The other actors and actresses play their more demented parts against his steady, even slightly dim character. If you like a movie with a devious plot, you will enjoy this one.

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