Is this just a cliché' about powerful lawyers selling their souls to the dEVIL?

Rating: Null/10 (29 March 2011)

Keanu Reeves is Kevin Lomax, uncannily successful 30-ish lawyer in Florida. It seems that one of his gifts is being able to select juries that will sympathize with his clients and return a verdict of "not guilty." When asked how he does it, how he knows which ones to excuse because they will be trouble, he says he doesn't know, he just does. And he is being totally honest. But we know!
Kevin gets an invitation to go to New York, guest of high-profile law firm, and the key partner appears to be Al Pacino as John Milton. Kevin helps pick a jury, it works out well, he gets the job and a very expensive luxury apartment for him and Charlize Theron as his wife Mary Ann Lomax. (She was about 21 during filming, and lovely.)
But not all goes well, Mary Ann begins to experience some problems, even see some unusual visions. She wants to go back to Florida. Other key characters are Jeffrey Jones (of Ferris Buehler fame) as partner Eddie Barzoon, Judith Ivey as Kevin's ultra religious mother Alice Lomax, Connie Nielsen as the seductive lawyer in the same firm, Christabella Andreoli, and Craig T. Nelson as their newest high-profile client, Alexander Cullen, to be tried for murdering his own family members.
This is a dark thriller, somewhat scary at times, with satanic undertones. Not for everyone, I enjoyed it for the story telling.
SPOILERS: John Milton is in fact the dEVIL. He has picked Kevin to come to the firm because he wants Kevin to take over the practice. You see, Kevin is actually Milton's son, born of a strange visit his mother made years ago to NYC. That is why he also has the power to know how to pick jurors. Caught in a very tight spot, in Milton's lair, Kevin chooses to shoot himself in the head, his dying caused Milton and his half-sister Christabella to die, then Kevin was able to "wake up" to his prior existence, now rid of the dEVIL and all that came with it.