Monsignor

What could have been either an intriguing gutting of behind-the-scenes corruption in the Catholic church or at least a luridly melodramatic bodice-ripper finds an awkward middle ground here. Chief problem is Reeve's unconvincing portrait of the conniving social climber; he is stuck in Superman nobility mode and plays the character as if striving for the greater good! An otherwise excellent cast is left to founder in a choppy narrative which was apparently subject to obvious pre-release cutting.