{"id":9574,"date":"2026-02-26T10:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieassault.com\/?p=9574"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:40:15","slug":"devils-advocate-1997-second-chance-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieassault.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/devils-advocate-1997-second-chance-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil&#8217;s Advocate (1997) Second Chance Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignleft has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;border-top-left-radius:10px;border-top-right-radius:10px;border-bottom-left-radius:10px;border-bottom-right-radius:10px\"><blockquote><p><strong>It\u2019s basically a legal thriller that slowly mutates into supernatural horror.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is another installment in my Second Chance Reviews series,  where I revisit movies I reviewed years ago and see if time, perspective, and experience have changed my opinion. There may be spoilers, so you\u2019ve been warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time around, I\u2019m taking a second look at 1997&#8217;s <strong><em>Devil&#8217;s Advocate<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Directed by Taylor Hackford, the film stars Keanu Reeves as Kevin Lomax, an undefeated Gainesville, Florida defense attorney who specializes in getting some truly terrible people off the hook. After successfully defending a child molester, Kevin is recruited to New York City by a powerful law firm run by the charismatic and mysterious John Milton, played by Al Pacino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Milton offers Kevin everything: a massive salary, a luxury apartment, prestige, influence, and temptation at every turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin moves to New York with his new wife Mary Ann (Charlize Theron,) despite the concerns of his deeply religious mother. As Kevin becomes consumed by high-profile cases \u2014 including one involving a wealthy client (Craig T. Nelson) \u2014 Mary Ann is left alone in their cavernous apartment, slowly unraveling as she begins noticing something deeply wrong with their new life and the other \u201clegal widows\u201d in the building. And if you know your theology \u2014 particularly the Book of Revelation \u2014 you can probably guess where this is heading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I <a href=\"https:\/\/movieassault.com\/index.php\/1998\/10\/04\/devils-advocate-1997\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"479\">reviewed<\/a> this back in 1998, I was brutal. I gave it one star out of five. I literally called the movie stupid. I said Keanu Reeves&#8217; performance was clueless. I found Charlize Theron annoying. I thought the script was kitschy and dumb. The only thing I really liked was Pacino, who I felt was clearly having a blast chewing the scenery. And honestly, I misread the movie entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Re-watching it nearly three decades later, I had a completely different reaction. Back then, I thought the film was trying to be a dark comedy \u2014 something self-aware and almost campy. It\u2019s not. Yes, there are winks and nudges \u2014 the name \u201cJohn Milton\u201d being a nod to the author of <em>Paradise Lost<\/em>, the heavy symbolism, the pentagram references \u2014 but the movie isn\u2019t really trying to be funny. It\u2019s a morality play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s about temptation. It\u2019s about greed and vanity. It\u2019s about ambition at the cost of your soul. It\u2019s basically a legal thriller that slowly mutates into supernatural horror. It&#8217;s like a John Grisham novel filtered through biblical apocalypse imagery. And when you watch it through that lens, it works much better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keanu Reeves isn\u2019t clueless; he plays Lomax as a man intoxicated by success, and that blind ambition is the point. He\u2019s not stupid \u2014 he\u2019s arrogant. Charlize Theron isn\u2019t annoying; she\u2019s tragic. Her descent into paranoia and spiritual dread is actually one of the film\u2019s strongest elements, and it adds emotional weight that I completely dismissed back in the day. And Al Pacino is still phenomenal, still theatrical, and clearly loving every second of it. Now his performance feels less like random scenery-chewing and more like controlled, deliberate evil incarnate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, there are moments where you wonder how Kevin doesn\u2019t figure things out sooner, but without that blindness, you don\u2019t have a story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it a masterpiece? No. It\u2019s still a bit long. It\u2019s still heavy-handed. Some of the dialogue is on-the-nose. But it\u2019s ambitious, stylish, and far more entertaining than I gave it credit for. And because I hadn\u2019t seen it since 1998, I had forgotten major plot beats, so it still managed to surprise me in places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve seen much, much worse, and this one deserves more respect than I gave it back in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n<span class=\"fsrs\"><span class=\"fsrs-stars\"><i class=\"fsrs-fas fa-fw fa-star \"><\/i><i class=\"fsrs-fas fa-fw fa-star \"><\/i><i class=\"fsrs-fas fa-fw fa-star \"><\/i><i class=\"fsrs-fas fa-fw fa-star-half-stroke \"><\/i><i class=\"fsrs-far fa-fw fa-star \"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"hide fsrs-text fsrs-text__hidden\" aria-hidden=\"false\">3.5 out of 5.0 stars<\/span><span class=\"lining fsrs-text fsrs-text__visible\" aria-hidden=\"true\">3.5<\/span><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s basically a legal thriller that slowly mutates into supernatural horror. 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