The Devil's Advocate 1997

Critics score:
66 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Lurid advance ads for Devil's Advocate make it look ridiculous. It's not. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Although it's nice for a film to be ambitious, there is such a thing as overreaching. Read more

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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: [Hackford] seems stuck in a private limbo, unable to decide whether he's making a special-effects flick or a pop-philosophical tract. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A highly enjoyable motion picture that's part character study, part supernatural thriller, and part morality play. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie never fully engaged me; my mind raced ahead of the plot, and the John Grisham stuff clashed with the Exorcist stuff. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: The picture starts off slick and amusing, gets convoluted, draggy and strange round about the midway point, and ends up just plain ludicrous. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The movie's greatest strength is that it becomes more complex and rewarding as it goes along. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: Regrettably, an overblown finale and redundant trick ending undercut the mild subversiveness of what's gone before. Read more

Washington Post: Read more