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Devil's Advocate (1997)
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Too old for Hamlet and too young for Lear--what's an ambitious actor to do? Play the Devil, of course. Jack Nicholson did it in The Witches of Eastwick; Robert De Niro did it in Angel Heart (as Louis Cyphre--get it?). In The Devil's Advocate Al Pacino takes his turn as the great Satan, and clearly relishes his chance to raise hell. He's a New York lawyer, of course, by the name of John Milton, who recruits a hotshot young Florida attorney (Keanu Reeves) to his firm and seduces him with tempting offers of power, sex, and money. Think of the story as a twist on John Grisham's The Firm, with the corporate evil made...
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| Devil's Advocate Movie Review by Lloyd (8/2/2008) |
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This is one of the creepiest movies I have seen in a long time, and I did not expect any of what I saw to transpire as it did. Man this is one movie that creeped me out and it is not part of my dvd collection, maybe it has something to do with me being a Christian, and anything that has to do with demons and anything...
(complete Devil's Advocate review by Lloyd)
| Devil's Advocate Movie Review by Jarrod (7/28/2007) |
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'The Devil's Advocate' places Satan as the head of a law firm in New York City, and names him John Milton (after the author of a poem about man's expulsion from the Garden of Eden), and gives him a young married couple to tempt, corrupt and defile. All in all, it is not terribly subtle, but is remarkably entertaining, and...
(complete Devil's Advocate review by Jarrod)
Pacino is over the top in his characterization of the devil in this film. You really believe, I mean really believe that you are seeing Satan himself. I never get tired of watching this performance.
He has a great supporting cast here with Keanu Reeves as a lawyer that will do anything to win. But, Kevin (Reeves) was bush...
(complete Devil's Advocate review by Movie Addict)
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