the Devil's Avocate, an interesting movie

Rating: 7/10 (23 March 2013)

The Devil's Advocate
A movie of mystery and suspense, where people left their normal lives to live a story that since its beginning is surreal. That is how rolls The Devil's Advocate.
Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reevens) is a lawyer that began his carrier at Florida and his principal characteristics are: He's never lost a court case before; He wins cases whether the accused is innocent or not; He is an excellent professional and it calls much attention of a millionaire - John Milton (Al Pacino), an owner of largest law firm in New York. John makes a proposal that cannot be refused by Kevin: if he wins the cases, he would work with him and have a good job and house. So he passed to live better in New York- the city that already wished for many peoples- with his wife Mary Ann Lomax (Charlize Theron), who had worked a lot before, since she was 13.
Kevin unfortunately accepts this proposal even being advised by his mother Alice Lomax (Judith Ivev) that New York was the big Babylon, as descriptive on Apocalypse. He was a religious man when he was a child, Kevin knew this prophecy but he thought would only practice his religiosity again in his old age. By not listening to the prophecy, his life changes radically from that.
He starts to work in this new company and his wife stays at home because she doesn't work anymore. Her function was only to take care of the house. But strange things start to happen in her life, she begins to see strange shapes in the people and they pass to have some aspects of demons and they are trying to scare her. The most interesting fact is that the boss of Kevin, Mr. John, always knows everything that happens in his married life.
After many events, the movie ends with secrets revealed;
Kevin finds out that his boss and his own mother are the center of the secret that could transform his life totally. When the movie ends, it scions about vanity and reinterpret the habitual concept about it and take this concept to Spiritual life. The movie sin in last scenes because it ends in a messy and the movie didn't make clear the real surreal.
Can call your attention in a way that you forget the world, it try to exit you of the simple world where your mind can open to others' understanding.
This movie is directed by Taylor Hackford, lasts 2:23:34. It was produced in 1997.