The Devil's Advocate

5.00
    The Devil's Advocate
    1997

    Synopsis

    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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    Cast

    • Keanu ReevesKevin Lomax
    • Al PacinoJohn Milton
    • Charlize TheronMary Ann Lomax
    • Jeffrey JonesEddie Barzoon
    • Judith IveyAlice Lomax
    • Connie NielsenChristabella Andreoli
    • Craig T. NelsonAlexander Cullen
    • Tamara TunieMrs. Jackie Heath
    • Ruben Santiago-HudsonLeamon Heath
    • Debra MonkPam Garrety

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Washington Post

      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.
    • 80

      Newsweek

      Written with brio and staged rousingly by director Taylor Hackford, the film is good, kitschy fun -- after all, how can you hate a movie that casts litigators as the new legions of Lucifer?
    • 70

      The New York Times

      The film uses morphing and Rick Baker's monster effects strikingly, but it also keeps its gimmicks well tethered to reality.
    • 70

      Washington Post

      The story (adapted from Andrew Neiderman's novel by Jonathan Lemkin and Tony Gilroy) is surprisingly well-handled, given its rather crazy premise.
    • 63

      Chicago Sun-Times

      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.
    • 63

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      The Devil's Advocate is a dull morality tale, but a number of bright moments come courtesy of the Prince of Darkness.
    • 60

      Los Angeles Times

      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.
    • 50

      TV Guide Magazine

      This supremely silly supernatural potboiler is slickly entertaining for just under two hours and absolutely hilarious for 10 minutes near the end.

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