Tongue In Cheek

Rating: Null/10 (27 August 2004)

Rosemary's Baby joins The Firm in this fun thriller starring Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino
In director Taylor Hackford's Devil's Advocate, a pre-Matrix Keanu Reeves plays Kevin Lomax, a young, ambitious Florida attorney lured to a multinational law firm in New York by the deliciously evil magnate played by a charismatically diabolical John Milton (Pacino).
There Lomax becomes corrupted by vanity, ambition and greed - while his loyal wife, Mary Ann (Theron), trying to get him to see the error of his ways, is sacrificed on the altar of greed.
Pacino gleefully invests Milton with a gimlet-eyed evil, as, after all, he's not just an unscrupulous boss - he's the Devil himself. Yup, Pacino joins other such luminaries as De Niro (in Angel Heart), Nicholson (in The Witches Of Eastwick), Gabriel Byrne (in End Of Days) and even Sam Neill (in Omen III: The Final Conflict) in incarnating the Antichrist in the name of entertainment.
This is tongue-in-cheek, fun thriller and a variation on a classic theme - would you sell your soul to gain the whole world?