The Reckoning, also known as Morality Play (and as El misterio de Wells in Spain), is a 2004 British-Spanish murder mystery drama film directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Paul Bettany, Willem Dafoe, Tom Hardy, Gina McKee, Brian Cox and Vincent Cassel.

On their journey to the next town, they are forced to travel to a new district after a collapsed bridge stops them from taking their normal route and to mend the cart that carries their goods, although they have no money.

The troupe reaches a strange town, with its castle under reconstruction, and finds a woman being sentenced to death for killing a boy, upon the testimony of Benedictine Monk Simon Damian (Ewen Bremner).

Plantagenet Lord de Guise (Vincent Cassel) watches from the castle and sends the sheriff to clear the square by force.

The troupe is told to leave town by first light, but Nicholas's convictions urge him to determine first-hand what happened to the boy.

Nicholas then obtains more evidence to prove that the woman is not the real killer (the body was found with rigor mortis, which meant the killing was more recent).

The execution is set but before it can be carried out, the troupe has returned and seized the scaffold as a stage for their new play based on the most recent information.

Nicholas presents the evidence to de Guise, who admits everything with an air of invulnerability, knowing that he is untouchable under the feudal system.

[4] Lael Loewenstein of Variety wrote, "The Reckoning has its flaws, among them a certain self-righteousness and a complicated storyline, but it is never less than gripping thanks to its gifted international cast.