“Confidential Information” (** out of four) was a competent but unexceptional police melodrama about a police detective (Dominick Purcell) who is dying from cancer who arranges to be killed in the line of duty so his wife (Kate Bosworth) can receive lifetime health benefits but this leads to a multitude of consequences for other cops (Mel Gibson, Nick Stahl) and various underworld figures as everyone finds their worst instincts rising to the surface. Overall well-directed by co-writer/director Michael Oblowitz but film is enervated by its routine story and structure. Film uses the mesmerizing “House Of The Rising Sun” which was used for the classic scene in “Casino” but it just doesn’t have the same conviction here.