visually stunning, but falls short of being brilliant

Rating: 8/10 (22 December 2001)

a movie with style, a little substance and some stunniongly cunning screenplay. al pacino as the devil is brilliant, oozes cunning rather than evil. but to me the standout performance was charlize theron as the little girl who wants to make it big but not quite tough enough in the lonely empty new world.
the movie is visually alluring and has many stunning scenes, a lot of the scenes though are pure humbug and get pretty grating, however the overall style is snappy. devil's advocate is a challenging movie and though a little preachy is a smart movie nevertheless.
keanu reeves proves once again that he cant act for nuts. otherwise, the movie has a good score and many smart dialogs, a good fun movie that could have been really good. and i really like the ending ... (*** possible spoiler ahead ***) i mean the ending after the climax ;)
a 7.5 given a generous 8!