The Devil's Advocate Critic Reviews
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The Devil's Advocate is a sharp, suspenseful and completely satisfying movie. Read the full review
Unlike so many pagan entertainments that seem to have no moral center as they blow things up, this one in fact does. It's very small, but it's there.Read the full review
Embarrassingly entertaining.Read the full review
The Devil's Advocate is a highly-enjoyable motion picture that's part character study, part supernatural thriller, and part morality play.Read the full review
A fairly entertaining supernatural potboiler that finally bubbles over with a nearly operatic sense of absurdity and excess.Read the full review
The story (adapted from Andrew Neiderman's novel by Jonathan Lemkin and Tony Gilroy) is surprisingly well-handled, given its rather crazy premise.Read the full review
The film uses morphing and Rick Baker's monster effects strikingly, but it also keeps its gimmicks well tethered to reality.Read the full review
But there are scenery chewers and there are Michelin-gourmet scenery chewers, and Pacino has a three-star feast.Read the full review
It is not a serious film about its subject, nor is it quite a dark comedy, despite some of Pacino's good lines. The epilogue, indeed, cheats in a way I thought had been left behind in grade school. And yet there are splendid moments.Read the full review
Directed in bold, energetic strokes by Taylor Hackford, "Devil" is fine disreputable fun at first, a stylish and watchable hoot. But then its tone changes, the plot goes gimmicky and bombastic speeches about the nature of good and evil clutter the airwaves and confuse the issue.Read the full review
