[finnigan2]

"It's a good flick. There is no agenda. There is an assisted suicide at the end."

- I don't have a big problem with the assisted suicide aspect, after all, isn't that what happened at the end of "The English Patient"? It's just a device to show what such a decision does to the Clint Eastwood character.
However, what I've heard which does bother me (I haven't yet seen the movie) is that apparently the priest whom Clint's character consults before carrying out the killing, is made out to be some kind of useless buffoon who isn't even familiar with Catholic theology on the subject of mercy killing.
Thus, if true, the pros and cons of the killing are not fairly presented to the viewer and in the process the Church's position is made to seem irrelevant and even foolish to any decision on the subject.

[Non-Sequitur]

However, what I've heard which does bother me (I haven't yet seen the movie) is that apparently the priest whom Clint's character consults before carrying out the killing, is made out to be some kind of useless buffoon who isn't even familiar with Catholic theology on the subject of mercy killing.

I don't think so. One aspect of Eastwood's character is that he attends mass daily and pesters the priest with inane and insulting questions on theology, which the priest reacts to in the same manner as anyone else would. The priest does make a very valid observation when he tells Eastwood's character that in his experience one reason why people attend mass daily is that they have something that they can't forgive themselves for, which accurately described Frankie. I don't think that they made him out as a buffoon, just someone fed up with a pest.