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The Devil's Advocate

The Devil's Advocate (1997)

October. 17,1997
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7.5
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R
| Drama Horror Thriller Mystery

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.

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adonis98-743-186503
1997/10/17

An exceptionally adept Florida lawyer is offered a job to work in New York City for a high-end law firm with a high-end boss - the biggest opportunity of his career to date. The Devil's Advocate was another achievement for Al Pacino and one that has him playing the Devil and if we count out the weird transformation that the studio chose this film is still brilliant (perhaps the design that was used in End of Days would have been a better choice). Keanu Reeves is also brilliant but the person who stands tall next to Pacino's great perfomance must be hands down Charlize Theron who as the film goes on and on gets even better and better. The Devil's Advocate is a teriffic movie!!! (A+)

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Md AbduL Motin
1997/10/18

The Devil's Advocate (1997)I happily was avoiding those unexplained things until that ending portion came up where Kevin get that it was just a thought and he thought all those just in a second. When that second was over the whole movie just got killed.I liked it till that last scene. I was ready to avoid mistakes like :Mary Ann gets sicker and sicker but why was she actually getting sick? Loneliness? For real? She was not actually that lonely? She had friends next door. making her sick was really a very important part but She gets sick miraculously no one knows the reason.What was Pacino doing in the last scene? he was never real in the whole movie then how he ended up being in reality? It could be a great movie with some changes. They just could have ended the movie where Kevin shot himself. They wanted audience to leave theatre in a good mood. But 4 minutes was not enough to do that.All characters were well developed but not the story. Some changes and it could be a masterpiece. This was a very beautifully acted movie & what a beautiful background score. It's just the story that making me sad.after all I enjoyed it.

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The Movie Diorama
1997/10/19

An interesting combination that evokes several themes. The problem is though, the two don't necessarily marinate well together constantly. A hot shot talented lawyer is unstoppable as he wins every case. A big cheese comes along and takes him under his wing which proves to be far more life altering than first anticipated. It's no spoiler, given the title and front cover, that this is about the power of evil. Vanity, power, lust, temptation...in fact, include all of the seven deadly sins as well. Depicting the idea that there is evil within everyone and that good does not necessarily always prevail. Our protagonist starts his new career with the best of intentions for him and his wife. He then starts to dabble into temptation and unknowingly evil creeps into his subconscious, tainting his view on love and life. Gradually becoming a marionette to a greater puppet master, which of course is perceived to be the Devil. I like the portrayal of how careers and relationships are built upon good, only for them to be maintained by evil. The narrative clearly shows this, the problem is the balance between the courtroom cases and the effects of the Devil's influence are skewed. They do not blend constantly. This becomes clear towards the end where the plot reveals a few twists. The religious connotations and subtext that follow are far too forced in a film that primarily focusses on law. Perhaps injecting the subtextual layers into the narrative more frequently would've given a better result and not such an underwhelming ending. Wasn't a huge fan of the final five minutes, hate it when films do that (you'll know what I mean if you've seen it). Surprisingly Keanu Reeves held his own against Al Pacino, and I thought Charlize Theron projected fragility really well in what is one of her earliest performances. It's a good drama, with many psychological concepts but unfortunately didn't explore the influence of evil to a greater extent.

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filimaua
1997/10/20

I thoroughly enjoyed this film as an artistic view on the dark side of humanity. It explored themes of morality and temptation and free will. Keanu Reeves plays Kevin, a successful lawyer that's never lost a case that is offered a job at a powerful firm in New York, Charlize Theron plays his wife Mary Ann, and Al Pacino plays Kevin's boss and mentor who is revealed to actually be his father and Satan himself.The more successful Kevin gets, the more he tends to end up abandon his wife. The film brings the idea that we are tempted by Satan to commit evil acts. But he doesn't control us and make us do these things, rather he tempts us with promises of whatever we desire, or whispers ideas into our heads and we do evil things in reaction and of our free will. Which I found to be a powerful message. The idea of the big, cold New York City being the "devil's land" or "the city of Babylon" was a nice touch.People may have a problem with the nudity, but I was fine with it. It was an important part of the story. The female body and sex is shown to be another aspect of temptation.So the whole point of the movie is, the devil exists and pushes humanity to do whatever we want for our own selfish desires, but at the end of the day what we do is all of free will. We have free will to give in to the temptations, just as we have the free will to resist and try and stay as morally good as we can.My only problem with this film is Keanu Reeves. He was very good in this film, its just emotion was needed in a few scenes. Especially the death of his wife. He is crying and screaming as she dies in front of him, yet the very next scene he is walking down the hallway with his emotionless face and mono tone voice again. Dude, your wife just died. I would still be in a little moment of shock and sadness. I would just break down in tears a little here and there as it hits me over and over that my wife is dead, my voice would be in different tones. Nope, he is back into the usual emotion again, with barely any sadness under his monotone voice and facial expressions.Other than that, Al Pacino is amazing, Charlize Theron is also good. A very good entertaining flick, with a dark atmosphere and a powerful message on the deep root of evil in humanity.

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