Incredible

Rating: Null/10 (22 March 2004)

What an insightful film. I can watch this over and over again and not get tired. Al Pacino is the dude of acting! lol It goes a lil something like this: Kevin Lomax (Reeves) is a hot shot lawyer who's never lost a case. He's married to a follically challenged woman named Mariann (Theron) and they're happy as clams. John Miller (Pacino) hears about Kevin's streak and decides to recruit him. They go to NYC and are wined, dined, and bribed into accepting a job as a criminal lawyer in a network of top global lawyers. Once they start living the life and Kevin gets all his clients acquitted for their criminal deeds, things start to go haywire. Mariann starts to see demons in their friends and realizes she can't have the baby she desperately wants. She feels alienated and out of place while Kevin works. She eventually goes crazy, but only because she's seen the truth. Kevin is taken under the wing of John Miller and gets caught up in lying for his clients to maintain his perfect record. All is not what it seems as people start dying and Kevin finds out that he's the son of the Devil. As a child of a Bible-thumping mother, this creates a problem. Miller wants him to start a "family business" with his half sister (whom he secretly lusts) and basically wants to p*** God and all the angels off with the lack of justice in the world. I liked that this movie made people realize that the devil can be real and out there affecting forms of governments and other systems of power. This is obviously a movie, but the message to me is still clear. It was a unique angle to attack an age-old debate from. Satan is in the law? American law? Hmm....pretty interesting stuff. Sure would explain a lot and don't mention O.J. any of you, lol. Point is, the movie is fabulous and decadent and shows how vanity can be a deadly sin and probably Satan's favorite according to Pacino. Theron attacked her part wonderfully and made a fan out of me. She's absolutely stunning. Greed is a serious issue and this movie discusses that. It's a must see and they have it on TBS and TNT all the gosh darn time, so just watch it.