The Offence

Buy This Item The Offence by MGM (Video & DVD)  Available from Amazon  $14.95  on 11-29-2008     Three and a half stars. Well-acted thriller. Connery, who plays a disturbed policeman forced to face his demons, gives a brave performance, especially considering he could have spent the rest of his acting life making buckets of money playing 007 and nothing else. He stretches himself here and is given excellent support by the likes of Trevor Howard (who is a man, and does not play the wife as stated in an earlier review), Vivian Merchant (who does play Connery's wife) and especially Ian Bannen as the accused child molester. Lumet's direction occasionally borders on the murky (dark lighting, endless rain, mysterious flashbacks), but the actors come through. Worth seeing. Reader Reviews This film was incredibly neglected in its historic context . The camera - eye goes through the screen directly to the crime scene : A Federal Agent has exceeded his ethics principles in order to get a confession when , in the middle of the interrogatory certain details will get out of control. The admirable flashbacks employed by Lumet allows us to rebuilt all this conflictive puzzle. The sum of so many memories has been burrowing the emotional equilibrium of this efficient agent : the horror , the impotence , leads him to a serious isolating process characterized by an evident lack of communication with any other person . The frenetic discussion with his wife confirms the statement . He seems to be possessed by a febrile obsession : all or nothing is his inner philosophy . Few times Sean Connery had been required with such level of expressiveness Ian Bannen is superb too as the suspect man. A mature and introspective film . Another triumph for Lumet .

The Offence Available from Amazon Price: $14.95 Updated on 11-29-2008.

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