Weird flick, you make my heart tick

Rating: 8/10 (27 August 2000)

This is really a weird film, trust me. I mean I've seen a couple of strange films but never have I seen such a strange one yet. That probably originated in me thinking that this would be a film about a lawyer in the style of The Firm, you know I thought it was about a young lawyer making the big hit in the city and all the problems that arise there. I had seen the commercials on TV a few years back and I was under the impression that it was about a lawyer who moves to the city and starts an affair there and gets in trouble later due to the adultery he committed. MAN I was wrong, never have I been so wrong in my life. But that being wrong' was also encouraged by the Video Store I rented it in. It said there right on the side that it was a thriller and not like a science fiction movie or something. I know this isn't genuine science fiction, but hell this ain't a genuine thriller either. I don't know what this was man, I don't know and that has never happened to me before.

The question now is really was I disappointed, HELL no, it was a good film really. OK when Charlize Theron started freaking out I was like: What is this man?' but then I started getting into it and I must really say the performances helped a lot too. Keanu Reeves was good. Charlize Theron and Connie Nielsen, they were good too (really). What about Pacino??? Well, Al Pacino, he was fu..ing great. He was like, damn I have never seen him so good, he was pure evil and that made you believe he was the character he portrayed. He was just the best one in the whole picture great performance, I would have liked to have seen some kind of nomination or award for that role.

Although I know and feel it was a bit of a strange film, I liked it still, because it had all the elements that a good film needs, it had a good story, a good cast, good direction and of course enough excitement not to lose appeal, for it was like 144 minutes long. That's 2 hours and 22 minutes. The film was just built up in the best possible way. You really started thinking during the film and it all was kept really tasty, so it would not get too cheap and gory. Those last things were not needed too for the actors and the story were good and it was not some Urban Legend 3: This is really the Final Cut people, plus it is the best one yet'.

Of course with a film like this and the actors involved there are bound to be some excellent scenes and believe me there were some. My favourite two are the whole ending with the Reeves  Pacino confrontation and of course the scene with the broken mirror (I don't want to spoil anything but that was the best scene of the sort I have ever seen).

At last there is only one more thing I want to say to all of you, if you don't know what I mean with this being a strange film, let me put it like this, it reminded me a lot of Rosemary's Baby, but it was like million times better. Let's say it like this, this is the kind of movie I expected to see when I started watching Rosemary's Baby. Still don't know what I mean? Rent The Devil's Advocate then and do it fast.

8 out of 10