What an awesome experience!!!!!!!

Rating: 9/10 (10 March 2010)

I remember watching a scene from The Devils Advocate when I was nine years old but 3 years later (Which is right now), at the age of 12, I had the chance to watch it......... the whole movie this time. My money was well spent on this film. It had everything you could ask for from action to horror to thriller and FUN. Right from the start I was hooked as Kevin Lomax, played by Keanu Reeves, was defending a teacher who had molested one of his students. You also learn that Kevin Lomax will do anything to stay at the top and won't let anyone beat him. Kevin Lomax is a very fun and hardened character. He is mysterious and competent while also being a very fun character. But it's too bad that he is going to go through hell after meeting John Milton, Satan himself, who is actually Kevin Lomax's actual father. John Milton, played by Al Pacino, is very SATANIC and mischievous. He has money, wealth, women, and powers that are beyond heaven Get it? Al Pacino was the real show-catcher hear with his character and this performance MIGHT be one of his best in a long time after Scent Of A Woman. He acts smoothly and at times he doesn't even look like a human. Good work, Al! Oops! One other thing about Al Pacino is his laugh. It is funny and dangerous as well. He uses his chuckle throughout the movie but at the end when he reveals his real self and later chuckles, it is that when he gets you.... real close. Taylor Hackford was a nobody to me, I didn't even know him, but after seeing this true masterpiece he has become a somebody to me. HE did a good job in direction and has made the second best movie in 1997 after "The Mummy". Sorry to all Mummy haters. It just worked a little bit better than this. Andrew Neiderman has told a blood-chilling story which will be hailed forever. Some people will find this scary and some even funny? I don't know why! The film is not so scary but it doesn't need that. Whats even better is that it was not needed at all.The film could have still scared me without that. At occasional times you will see some characters faces turn into demonic like and that can scare some people. At the end when you see a little bit of the real devil you feel tense and shaken. At least I was!
After hotshot lawyer Kevin Lomax gets the attention of John Milton, who is his father, he thinks it is a dream come true. But dreams always come with a price. In order to live stylishly, Kevin has to work for him in return as his lawyer. His mother isn't so sure about it but still lets him. She is a good Christian who has a revelation of her own. Work is going fine when he and his wife, Mary Ann (Charlize Theron), start experiencing something supernatural. Not knowing if it is real or not they decide to ignore it. They should have packed up and gone home living happily but they made a mistake. Then deaths occur. Mary Ann starts deluding and has to be in a mental hospital where she cuts her throat and dies. At the end, Kevin can continue the "Family" by giving Milton another son but instead he shoots himself in the head. Just when you thought that Kevin has died, it was all a vision. Kevin trusts his vision and decides not to go to the life he saw in his vision. He decides to do an interview with a reporter but doesn't know that John Milton is actually pretending to be the reporter. When the film ends you can her Milton Chuckle.
The films atmosphere is strange and moody. It is a good match with the movie. The music is good as well but sometimes doesn't match the scene. The film was not perfect but it did come close and for that it will be in my DVD collection FOREVER. This movie deserves to be viewed by everyone at least once and I hope you don't get disappointed after viewing it. A fine film made for fine eyes! 9/10 - awesome!
"Over and Out" 10th January 2010.