Repentance

Director: Philippe Caland
Cast: Anthony Mackie, Forest Whitaker, Mike Epps, Sanaa Lathan, Nicole Ari Parker
Genre: Suspense/Thriller 2014
Running time: 90 mins.

Rating:★★★★

Years after a drunken car crash that almost took his life, Thomas Carter (Anthony Mackie) has reinvented himself as a therapist/spiritual advisor who advocates a synthesis of world religions and positivity. He's parlayed this vocation into a successful book release that draws the attention of Angel Sanchez (Forest Whitaker), a profoundly troubled man fixated on the untimely death of his mother. When Carter takes on Sanchez as a personal client in an effort to raise funds for his indebted brother Ben (Mike Epps), things quickly take a turn for the worse. Angel needs much more than a simple life coach. Single actions in the past comprise tidal waves of reactions in the present.

The mysterious headlights slowly making its way down the black screen, along with the music score, during the opening credits perfectly illustrates that it could be any other night and the event about to happen is unexpected. All in good fun can change one's life that may seem hard to overcome. Trying to find peace, move on, and not be haunted by something that happened four years ago. However, does a man that Thomas (Anthony Mackie) meets at one of his book signing, by chance or by fate? And when his brother drops by suddenly, what secret, in his near death experience, is Thomas trying to surpress? 

Love the vast difference in atmosphere between the seemly warm and put together of Thomas's house and the washed out, dark, and decaying of Angel's (Forest Whitaker) house. Their work together to aid in Angel's inner demons, will it unearth Thomas's demons instead? A powerful film that hit the audience to the core, relatable to everyone's desire to have the all of the pain, in one's past, to be taken away forever like magic. In turn to be free of its imprisonment, although life is not like that and the frustration, feels as if it's eating us away.

Whitaker plays an amazing mental-unstable man, making all the plot twists totally unexpected, captivating, and scary. The film is very reminent of Misery (1990) and The Collector (1965)

 in whole new level that is fantastic.