adonis98-743-186503 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+)

Md AbduL Motin 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.

Jitendra Kotai The film has a fantastic star cast. Keanu Reeves plays his role very well. The scene sealer however is AL Pacino. Charlize Theron looks adorable and hot. I was just having a discussion with a friend about choosing between Robert De Niro and AL Pacino and I came to a conclusion that AL Pacino makes every performance more grand. He definitely has an edge over every actor in this generation. He is a class apart.He has fantastic style and he delivers simple lines with such a punch that they become iconic moments. In every frame here he convinces you that he is Satan. He gives the role the edge it needed and his performance makes this movie supreme. The direction is impeccable. The script and dialogue are fantastic. The visuals are stunning and I am glad that they did not spoil this to make it a commercial horror movie.

Leofwine_draca A flashy, nauseating updating of all those '40s melodramas which had everyday folk teaming up with the devil in human form for all kinds of moral adventures, THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE is a huge disappointment for this viewer. Even the usually reliable Al Pacino can't save this movie, which at the end has him going way over the top with his typical shouty-shouty nonsense and making himself look like a complete fool. Despite being a high-budget production with some good makeup from old-hand Rick Baker and some brief morphing sequences, THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE is an annoyingly insubstantial little movie with a miscast hero in Keanu Reeves.Reeves of course is more suited to action fare like SPEED or THE MATRIX and scenes of him attempting to emote in this film are hard to watch, despite his pretty good attempts at being determined and forceful in the courtroom scenes. Although not without merit, and surprisingly understated for the majority of its running time, THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE fails at the end in being a piece of serious drama. The first reason is because of the stupid one-liners which the film is populated with, the second the over-the-top finale which relies on bad CGI far too much and ends up being a simple slanging match between hero and villain.By far the best acting on screen comes (somewhat surprisingly) from Charlize Theron (THE ASTRONAUT'S WIFE), who plays Reeves's put-upon wife. Of course, it's a choice role to play and Theron is very good indeed in portraying her character's mental breakdown (on the other hand, you just want to break Keanu's nose for being such a total, blind idiot to miss what's happening around him). Some of the vignettes and subplots surrounding the main story (like the one with Jeffrey Jones, who is attacked by demonic winos) are pretty enjoyable and the film has an expensive, glossy look to it as well. It's just a shame that some restraint couldn't have been brought in over the out-of-control actors and that some real suspense and tension couldn't have been worked into the storyline; never have I been so uninterested in a movie as it nears its explosive climatic showdown, but THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE repeatedly fails to invest the viewer with any excitement or interest, which is a real shame.