The Devils Advocate
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.
4 April 1944, Spokane, Washington, USA
1 August 1937, Brooklyn, New York, USA
24 November 1956, Lackawanna, New York, USA
March 21, 2017
Couldn't be more ridiculous.October 17, 2012
Far too bland and mediocre to really pull off such heavy handed themes...June 18, 2002
The movie's greatest strength is that it becomes more complex and rewarding as it goes along.July 01, 2011
Stylishly seductive and well-acted by Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves, but thematically flawed, Taylor Hackford's film is yet another version of the Faustian morality tale.January 01, 2000
As the movie approaches 2 1/4 hours, it begins feeling like eternal damnation.July 12, 2002
[Hackford] seems stuck in a private limbo, unable to decide whether he's making a special-effects flick or a pop-philosophical tract.January 01, 2000
The movie never fully engaged me; my mind raced ahead of the plot, and the John Grisham stuff clashed with the Exorcist stuff.February 14, 2001
Although it's nice for a film to be ambitious, there is such a thing as overreaching.July 12, 2016
Violence, sex, profanity dominate graphic temptation tale.August 24, 2008
This supremely silly supernatural potboiler is slickly entertaining for just under two hours and absolutely hilarious for 10 minutes near the end...June 24, 2006
Regrettably, an overblown finale and redundant trick ending undercut the mild subversiveness of what's gone before.September 26, 2012
Outrageously entertaining ... The picture's most superlative turn comes from Charlize Theron, who's a revelation in the first role to really show off her talents.