The Forgiven

Name: The Forgiven
Genre: Thriller
Released: March 9, 2018
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 41
Cast: David Butler, Debbie Sherman, Eric Bana, Forest Whitaker, Jeff Gum

2018

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Saban Films | Release Date: March 9, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: David Butler, Debbie Sherman, Eric Bana, Forest Whitaker, Jeff Gum, Michael MacKenzie, Morne Visser, Osbert Solomons, Rob Gough, Terry Norton, Thandi Makhubele, Warrick Grier

Summary: When Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Forest Whitaker) is appointed to head a nationwide investigation, he’s summoned to a maximum-security prison by a notorious murderer seeking clemency (Eric Bana). Inside the brutal prison walls, Tutu is drawn into a dangerous, life-changing battle with the cunning criminal.

Director: Roland Joffé

Genre(s): Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 115 min

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Peter Rainer

Mar 9, 2018

The most powerful scene in the movie, and the one that most fully encompasses its meaning, belongs to Mrs. Morobe (the marvelous Thandi Makhubele). Read full review

Oleg Ivanov

Mar 5, 2018

Roland Joffé's film is largely successful in its attempt to grapple with the terrible truths of apartheid and its legacy. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Mar 8, 2018

When the movie can stay out of its own way, it delivers some powerful scenes, including one in which Blomfeld faces down a would-be assassin (Nandiphile Mbeshu, superb) in a prison shower room. But beyond that, the movie offers conventional gratifications and no surprises. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Mar 8, 2018

Tutu and Blomfeld's confrontations have vigor and commitment but don't build to the requisite catharsis. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Mar 8, 2018

Featuring excellent performances by Forest Whitaker as Tutu and Eric Bana as an imprisoned racist government death-squad assassin seeking clemency, The Forgiven tackles its important political and social issues in an overly talky fashion. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Mar 8, 2018

It’s Eric Bana, cast as a fictionalized composite of various white-supremacist apartheid criminals, who comes closest to electrifying proceedings in what’s at heart a one-room two-hander, unconvincingly padded and populated for the big screen. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Mar 9, 2018

The Forgiven consequently only succeeds as an ugly, empty-headed provocation. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Sep 15, 2018

Dramatic and political thriller, based on real events. Interesting and moderately acceptable performances but its pace does not favor it and despite the attractiveness of the story, the film never manages to make you care enough and heading towards its final half hour you will be eager forDramatic and political thriller, based on real events. Interesting and moderately acceptable performances but its pace does not favor it and despite the attractiveness of the story, the film never manages to make you care enough and heading towards its final half hour you will be eager for it to end.… Expand

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royalguy07

Jul 1, 2022

Chastain looked good, Fiennes was solid to great per usual, setting was interesting. Plotting was dull.

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