Great Pacino vehicle...

Rating: 7/10 (22 March 2002)

This film will appeal to Al Pacino fans (who gives a truly fiery performance), and to those who believe in and/or just interested in the xtian mythology (some of the latter crowd may find the film a bit disturbing, however). Perhaps unfortunately, the film is entirely lacking in suspense, since we know Pacino's the devil from the beginning... everything draws to a very inevitable conclusion.
One thing I didn't find very believable is Keanu Reeve's characters' final action (I won't give it away in case you haven't seen the film). The guy plays an incredibly self-centered, egomaniacal sort of person, so what he does is pretty unbelievable and out of character... it seems much more likely he'd go ahead and "strike a bargain," so to speak, given his actions & motivations up until nearly the last moments of the film.
Just a final observation... I've seen Keanu Reeves playing characters both dead and alive, and amazingly he doesn't look any different "playing dead" than he does "playing alive." Sometimes I wonder if Reeves is actually neither dead nor alive... is there something in between? Maybe Hollywood knows something we don't, putting him in films like this one and "Dracula."

7/10 for entertainment value, and another opportunity to watch Al Pacino ranting and raving...