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THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE (1997)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Oct 31, 1997

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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Details Rated: R; Genres: Drama, Thriller; With: Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves

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THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE (R) Al Pacino and his gleaming teeth star in a schlock-religioso legal thriller -- The Firm meets Angel Heart. A wily young attorney (Keanu Reeves) is recruited to join a New York law firm run by Pacino's John Milton, a lawyer so ruthless, so eager to take on the most unscrupulous of clients, that he's...well, he's even more shameless than Alan Dershowitz. Pacino, of course, is playing the devil himself, and the premise of his outrageous turn is that it's fun to be the baddest guy on God's block. This may be Pacino's finest bad performance since Scarface. A horror-camp version of a hundred yuppie cautionary tales, The Devil's Advocate is silly, overwrought, and almost embarrassingly entertaining. B

Originally posted Oct 31, 1997 Published in issue #403 Oct 31, 1997 Order article reprints

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