Looks and sounds lovely, lots of strong performances, but it inexplicably gives up at the end. Turns out the obviously corrupt guy probably did all the corrupt stuff (though he denies it and we never get full closure on that), the obviously awful guy is so awful he wants to start a war against Islam, and the lovely charity in war-torn countries guy is really lovely. But then a twist! The lovely guy is so lovely that he's intersex. The end. Why spend the whole movie acting like a mystery thriller and then not give it a proper ending? Why didn't we ever meet the mysterious Morales, why didn't it turn out the pope was murdered, why didn't we at least get a confession? It's so utterly unsatisfying, which I wouldn't mind so much if the underneath all the lovely dressing the film was anything other than 'detective story in the Vatican'.
Rating: lovely presentation, letdown of an ending.
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