"The Confirmation" tried waaaaay too hard to cover all the bases - and missed every one. If Bob Nelson, the writer/director, had just focused on, say, three aspects, the movie might have been better. Instead, this movie tried to deal with divorce, step-parents, science nerds, alcoholism, meth heads, burglary, kids playing with guns, dead beat dads, questioning the validity of the Catholic church, scary priests, unemployment, eviction, teaching your kid to box, your kid teaching you to play video games, different music styles, car repairs, being stopped by the cops, trespassing, daddy issues that are solved in 1 day - it goes on and on. Jaeden Lieberher, the kid from "St. Vincent," was much better in that than this. Maria Bello has always been a second-rate actress and proved it once again by standing around like furniture. Clive Owen, who I like, tends to make bad choices - quite often. This was one of them. His accent changed from sentence to sentence and there was no chemistry whatsoever between him and the kid. Patton Oswalt, Robert Forster and Matthew Modine were a waste of space. I tried to like this movie - I really tried. Unfortunately, it was just too clichéd and too crowded with unbelievable scenarios and weak acting.
Review of The Confirmation
