Into Temptation – 6.5

Why would a successful call girl choose suicide, in such deliberate fashion no less? Why would a Catholic priest risk his career, and his life, to stop her, without even knowing who she is? Despite such an unconvincing premise, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie’s indie pace, the encounters between characters, the small jokes (often at the expense of the Catholic Church), and the laid-back, very honest lead performance by Jeremy Sisto. The Minneapolis setting, in the end, neither helped nor hurt, but it got me (any many others) into the theater on a Thursday afternoon, the right time and place for the small pleasures this film afforded.