Fun Fact: Keanu was sure that only Pacino could play the role of the Devil. The point is that the producers didn't have the money to get Pacino on board. So Keanu waived part of his salary to get Pacino on the boat. So we only got to see Pacino because of Keanu's sacrifice.
"Vanity is definitely my favorite sin!" Such a delightful and quotable performance from Pacino, though Reeves gives real conviction as Kevin. I like that his suits get darker as the story progresses. Another excellent reaction!
Al Pacino was born to play this role. It's clearly not his best role ever, but it's easily his most entertaining. He's just enjoying himself. It's an interesting concept for a movie, and setting it at a law firm kind of works. For all the criticism of Keanu Reeves' acting, I thought when I first saw this that he was pretty good. I believed that he and Charlize (who I had a major thing for in 1997) were a couple and that's important in a story like this. This is one of those nostalgic, guilty pleasure movies for me. It's a lot of fun.
@@solvingpolitics3172 The obvious ones. The Godfather movies, all of them (despite the 3rd movie not being as good as the first 2, he was still good), Scarface, Scent of a Woman, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon...he's been great in a lot of things. For me, this is his most fun performance. He's just having a blast with this character. I seem to remember he was in a movie with Russell Crowe about a cigarette company coming after a whistleblower (which is hilarious, since Pacino is a renowned chain smoker) and both of them were excellent in that.
I feel like Charlize Theron doesnt get enough credit, but imo she played well also. "Monster" is another great film with her, she actually won an Oscar for it :)
It did really happen, but the end wasn't Kevin getting another chance, it was Satan getting another chance. Once Kevin shot himself and destroyed the world as the Devil was making it, he cast them all back so he could try again.
I think it did happen and the devil just undid it, rolled it back. He wants him, and he has to get him to choose, so he's just going to tempt him endlessly until he wins him over.
But if Kevin doesn't Fall... well. He would have made the right, hard, choice. Over and over and over again. Hell, even just learning to reject his grandiousity might save Kevin. Kevin might tend towards his father, but he cleaves to the good. The worst thing the devil could have done for his own cause is give him context. The fight isn't over.
“He’s a tight ass. He’s a sadist. He’s an absentee landlord. Worship that? Never!” That is one of the best speeches ever. Al Pacino’s performance was fantastic, he killed it.
Just finished watching your reaction. Glad you liked it! And, yes, Pacino knocks it out of the park. He is clearly having so much FUN in the role, too.
I do love it when you wear your hair back but it was your love for Spy/Thriller Movies is why I fell in love with you Jen! 🌹 Absolutely Amazing Reaction as always Jen. 🙌👏🤝💯
It's not a vision. He got another chance because self sacrifice redeemed him. Love this movie, it's just full of great lines. Haven't seen it in a while so this is actually the first time i get why the Devil calls himself Milton lol This movie traumatized a friend of mine when we were in school. His greatest fear was the thought that people's faces contorted into monsters when he wasn't looking, so all you had to was get behind one of his shoulders and make a face and he would go berserk LMAO
It's not another chance. It's the devil rebooting the situation to have another go at Kevin. The implication of his last line is that he's always going to get him because Kevin is at heart a vain man, and vanity is one of the seven deadly sins. (Deadly in the sense of being a person's downfall.)
Historical Fact: Advocatus Diaboli was an actual position in the Roman Catholic church. Essentially, in the past they were making too many saints so the church created a system where if someone wanted to propose making someone a saint, they would have a little trial where each side presented their arguments for and against, the side against was the Devil's Advocate. Famous writer Christopher Hitchens was the Devil's Advocate when they proposed Mother Teresa's canonization.
That demonstrates why the system failed, if they could make a monster like that a saint. The whole Roman Catholic church has been evil for centuries though, so unsurprising really that they would canonise a monster who put a lot of money into their coffers. Also that's not actually accurate. The two miracles holds far more weight, even if the miracles being attributed to the particular saint are circumstantial at best. Hitchens was not Advocatus Diaboli, he did a documentary on her evils and the doctor who originally supported him withdrew the support calling the expose "slanderous" and decided he'd write a book about her instead. He's an atheist though so he's outside the auspices of the church and of god and so could not act in the stead as Diaboli.
yeah. i think the ending is kind of the idea that the test never ends. that pacino will always be there, at every turn, to guide you to the dark side. a really under-rated, under known movie. and the VFX work is phenomenal. not just in techincal achievement but the AESTHETICS. like the whole spiraling mural behind pacino in his "throne room". it starts as an abstract until you see it morph into a literal vision of hell. pretty sure all the figures in that mural were real people just painted white but the way they blended with the cgi... just really great execution. reminds me of constantine in that way. the vfx work is freaking top notch. because you saw that recently, i was thinking that just as keanu is falling in slow mo, he'd give pacino the finger lol. and actually, you can say that this ending is similar to constantine... the devil won't give him the easy out with death. nono. you won this time but but time is on his side... he'll give him more time - another go on the merry-go-round. he'll mess up. and pacino will be there to cash in.
I'm pretty sure that Was Trump's penthouse in Trump Tower. I didn't remember that from the first time I saw this movie! I also didn't remember Ferris Bueller's school principal in this movie, lol :P
Good movie. I’ve watched it plenty of times. The girl in the court room is in a cool quirky movie called Welcome To the Dollhouse. The theme song is great also in it. You should check out Angel Heart since you liked this one. I don’t do heights either-lol. There are clues throughout this movie to let you know Pacino is the devil starting with his name. John Milton wrote Paradise Lost.
Amazing movie. Loved it back in the day in cinema. Still love it. Great acting all around. Pacino of course owns this. "Vanity--definitely my favorite sin."
Today is my birthday, I'm 34 this year! This is one of my favorite movies from my childhood, with an interesting twist as well as having an allegory to John Milton's Paradise Lost.
Regarding the end, my interpretation has always been that Kevin lived the timeline as shown, but then he beat the Devil through self-sacrifice . . . and so was given another chance. Maybe by God, or, perhaps more likely, by the Devil himself. You see, the Devil isn't going anywhere, and the fact that Kevin gets another chance means that the Devil has another opportunity too! (An interesting aside: Is this the first time this has happened, or has Kevin beaten the Devil before? How many times? But the Devil is tenacious, and Kevin has proven himself vulnerable to vanity, the very same sin that first took down the beautiful angel Lucifer himself. The Devil's not going to give up any time soon!)
When I first saw this, I thought Ashley Judd was playing Mary Ann but didn't realize my first introducing to Charlize Theron because I never seen her before 1997.
Great review of a really good movie Jen! I used to work for an architectural ironwork company, we did a lot of really high-end businesses and residences. Like insane money for old world style decorative metalwork. We did a bronze door for an elevator that was the front door of a penthouse in San Francisco. The elevator doors in this apartment were massive and the facia we made would not fit into the elevator itself, something we told the client about when we took the initial measurements. These door facias were a pair of 400lbs bronze panels with bas relief work cast into them. The mechanisms to open and close the doors were modified by the elevator company to handle their mass and they used a huge cargo helicopter to lift the facias into the building through the hole in the roof. The client did not bat an eye with the near million dollar bill it took to complete the job. We worked on houses that were over 50,000 square feet, that's the size of a small shopping mall. Owners of properties like the Trump Tower in the movie just want what they want and they have the disposable income to make almost anything happen. Most of us will never comprehend the amount of money some people have, we think we do but very few really know.
Fun review as always! THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE still holds up as a sumptuous demonic fable with all cylinders firing. Thank you for presenting the movie in its original Panavision aspect ratio...
Devil's Advocate is one of those under-appreciated movies that people seem to have simply forgotten over the last 20 years- Glad to see people starting to react to it. This really is one of those movies like The Game or The Sixth Sense, where it's best to know nothing about it coming in. (Anyone who didn't know who Milton really was from watching the trailer wasn't paying attention) A couple of other forgotten movies you might want to check out sometime are Rollerball (1976) The Ice Pirates, The Prophecy and The Keep.
The name Milton is a reference to English writer John Milton who is famous for his epic poem, “Paradise Lost” It’s is in this poem where he coined the phrase, “It is better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven”
I once read a negative review of this movie saying that it's just an extended lawyer joke. That's what I love about it! I love the all out commitment, from the extravagant sets to delicious monologues to wild swings in mood. And Pacino looks like he's having the time of his life.
congratulations on making it through another spooky season Jen you did great and entertained us with your wonderful humour , screams , jump scares and gasps 🔥 , your blanket deserves to be nominated for an award for outstanding contribution to forming a safe space to ward off all things spooky 🙂 . we finish on this cool movie that was edited great and as always has wonderful commentary and jennerisms throughout . cheers for a wonderful month of content Jen you've been amazing 🔥💙🔥💙
The sculpture you see in Al Pacino's lair is not the one that was filmed. Originally it was "Creation" by Frederick Hart, but they did not have permission and he sued Warner Brothers. They had to digitally replace the sculpture at great cost in all the scenes. You can find the original scenes on TH-cam.
at 2:30 just to clear up your confusion, she was the only one he was NOT messing with, and she said "I didn't want to be the only one". she heard what was going on from the other girls. so he was terrible but because it wasn't happening to her and she was the only one who come forward, it ended up getting him set free.
I tend to agree with your "neverending spiral" theory, Jen, much like the battle between good and evil. Btw: the ending was so much better due to your dancing at the end. 😊
I only learned earlier this year that the painting / sculpture in Al Pacino's office is now CGI because it was too close to something else. The only official way to see it unblurred / un CGIed is if you can find a first printing DVD.
I think the ending implies that the devil can manipulate time, and return to the past to try something else, until the day he'll eventualy succeed. That's why he tells "I had so many children..." Maybe he's talking about previous versions of Keanu, who failed too. At least, that's how I always saw it.
Watched this at the theatre late at night with my wife, just the two of us. The theatre was empty. It was about 1 am when it was over. We stepped outside and there was not a soul anywhere. No traffic. No breeze. No sound. It was the eeriest sensation ever, especially after that movie. Couldn’t get home fast enough.
A truly under appreciated film considering the extremely few hardly ever times is even on tv, the combo of Keanu Reeves Charlize Theron and Al Pacino in the same cast in this they are perfect together in their respective roles. A definitive Hollywood classic.
Welcome to one of the best movies ever made. You did an excellent job with your reaction. You didn’t talk over the actors and that is hard to do. Good job.
This was my best movie experience ever on first time viewing when it came out. I saw this in the theatre in October 1997. I wanted to see a scary movie for Halloween but my date changed her mind and wanted to see this instead. I thought we were watching a court room drama - I had no idea and I didn’t care because first date. When the demon face appeared half way through the I hit the roof, like what the hell kind of movie is this?? I loved it. I learned that the best way to experience a movie is by knowing as little as possible.
Love this one. Pacino is sooooo good in this. "I'm the hand up the Mona Lisa's skirt." What a line. What a delivery. "He's a SADIST!!!" That's one kills me.
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im pretty sure this wasn't the first pacino movie i ever saw, maybe i saw it at a very impressionable age (i assume 14-15 by its release)... but to this day when i see pacino, i see the devil... and still love this movie... theron and pacino are just so amazing in this.
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this is a great devil movie, my only gripe with it is that charlize theron is too hot, her in her derange state is still hotter than the devil lady
Ex Satanist John Ramirez Said Satan Wanted To Be Called Daddy
BTW, that WAS Trump's place.
90 minutes of dark and disturbing build up for 15 minutes of one of the finest finales ever put to film. Love this movie.
Continuing to rate fireplaces by how many people you can fit in them is why you're one of the best in the game Jen!
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Where does the Grove Park Inn in NC rank? It was pretty damn big.
Just noticed the parallel with this and Constantine, where in the end, the devil gives Keanu another chance to prove he belongs in hell.
Fun Fact: Keanu was sure that only Pacino could play the role of the Devil. The point is that the producers didn't have the money to get Pacino on board. So Keanu waived part of his salary to get Pacino on the boat. So we only got to see Pacino because of Keanu's sacrifice.
hes a good guy, thinks of the greater good.
Keanu is way too good for this world.
"Vanity is definitely my favorite sin!" Such a delightful and quotable performance from Pacino, though Reeves gives real conviction as Kevin. I like that his suits get darker as the story progresses. Another excellent reaction!
I never noticed that about the suits.
Al Pacino was born to play this role. It's clearly not his best role ever, but it's easily his most entertaining. He's just enjoying himself. It's an interesting concept for a movie, and setting it at a law firm kind of works. For all the criticism of Keanu Reeves' acting, I thought when I first saw this that he was pretty good. I believed that he and Charlize (who I had a major thing for in 1997) were a couple and that's important in a story like this. This is one of those nostalgic, guilty pleasure movies for me. It's a lot of fun.
Keanu is good, when he's not being cast to play a 19th century British solicitor.
Reeves did fine, but just next to Theron and Pacino....well it would be hard for anyone to keep up.
What do you think we’re Pacino best roles?
@@solvingpolitics3172 The obvious ones. The Godfather movies, all of them (despite the 3rd movie not being as good as the first 2, he was still good), Scarface, Scent of a Woman, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon...he's been great in a lot of things. For me, this is his most fun performance. He's just having a blast with this character. I seem to remember he was in a movie with Russell Crowe about a cigarette company coming after a whistleblower (which is hilarious, since Pacino is a renowned chain smoker) and both of them were excellent in that.
14:47 "Imagine he's actually a vampire..." LoL
He's way worst. 🤣
My exact thoughts @ that time 😁
Keanu actually requested a cut in his pay, so that the producers could afford to hire Pacino.
I feel like Charlize Theron doesnt get enough credit, but imo she played well also.
"Monster" is another great film with her, she actually won an Oscar for it :)
Yep. Al Pacino was killing ít here but for young age Charlize was really good.
It did really happen, but the end wasn't Kevin getting another chance, it was Satan getting another chance. Once Kevin shot himself and destroyed the world as the Devil was making it, he cast them all back so he could try again.
Vanity. Definitely my favorite sin.
The ending is basically just Satan reloading a save point.
@@kellymoses8566lol. Indeed
@@kellymoses8566 Always quicksave before key plot events.
Keanus acting ability skyrocketed since this film. Think having to play off freakin Pacino here got him to grow a lot.
I'm stealing Jen's method of measuring fire places, definitely wasn't expecting that 😆
I think it did happen and the devil just undid it, rolled it back. He wants him, and he has to get him to choose, so he's just going to tempt him endlessly until he wins him over.
But if Kevin doesn't Fall... well.
He would have made the right, hard, choice. Over and over and over again.
Hell, even just learning to reject his grandiousity might save Kevin.
Kevin might tend towards his father, but he cleaves to the good.
The worst thing the devil could have done for his own cause is give him context.
The fight isn't over.
Charlize is the gold standard for female beauty, Aeon Flux, Perfection.
Jen watching a movie called The devil's advocate.
38 minutes in the reaction "Is he the devil?".
Haha don't change that was great! ❤
“He’s a tight ass. He’s a sadist. He’s an absentee landlord. Worship that? Never!” That is one of the best speeches ever. Al Pacino’s performance was fantastic, he killed it.
Agreed 100%. Absolutely legendary speech!!
if the devil is a humanist then that explains alot about the world
NGL, as an atheist a lot of what he says rings true
I never noticed this before, but at the 15:37 mark, smoke bellows from under Al's jacket. Such a cool effect.
Jen: "Are these his golden children?"
Me: *does the Leo DiCaprio pointing meme*
I never thought of classifying fireplaces by the number of bodies it could hold. Thanks for the Halloween Image.
Freaky? Try Jacob's Ladder :D
Seconded
😂 I dunno why I do that
Yes please goddam Jacob's Ladder... I never see anyone reacting to that one, and it's such a freaky movie, it's perfect reactor fodder. :)
A lot of people say Keanu turned his acting around either The Matrix or John Wick but I think it's because more people need to see him in this movie.
OMG! I’m so happy you watched this. Can’t wait to see your reaction!
Just finished watching your reaction. Glad you liked it! And, yes, Pacino knocks it out of the park. He is clearly having so much FUN in the role, too.
Craig T Nelson plays Alex Cullen. The voice of Mr Incredible.
Mary is seeing Eddie getting killed and sees the demon faces. The faces makes her think she is going crazy.
I do love it when you wear your hair back but it was your love for Spy/Thriller Movies is why I fell in love with you Jen! 🌹 Absolutely Amazing Reaction as always Jen. 🙌👏🤝💯
"This movie's going to get freaky, isn't it?"
Ummmm...on a scale of one to ten...
I'm just going to leave this at 13. For reasons.
I say it ends up at about......Seven
this movie has stayed in my head ever since I first saw it back in the 90s...
It's not a vision. He got another chance because self sacrifice redeemed him.
Love this movie, it's just full of great lines. Haven't seen it in a while so this is actually the first time i get why the Devil calls himself Milton lol
This movie traumatized a friend of mine when we were in school. His greatest fear was the thought that people's faces contorted into monsters when he wasn't looking, so all you had to was get behind one of his shoulders and make a face and he would go berserk LMAO
It creeped me out when I watched it as a teenager on VHS, but what more than cancelled that out was the nudity. 🤣
It's not another chance. It's the devil rebooting the situation to have another go at Kevin. The implication of his last line is that he's always going to get him because Kevin is at heart a vain man, and vanity is one of the seven deadly sins. (Deadly in the sense of being a person's downfall.)
@@Serai3 Isn't that a lot of power for the Devil to have?
@@deathtoraiden2080 Dude, it's a MOVIE. You know, FICTION.
@@Serai3 What an incredibly dumb comment
This movie is a freaking trip!! Saw this shortly after it came out in 97 or 98,. So so good though, especially the ending. Great reaction Jen
This is a very well done movie and, its title "The Devil's Advocate" is right on point (smile ... smile).
R.I.P. Teri Garr (1944-2024) Roberta Lincoln in Star Trek TOS episode "Assignment: Earth" (1968) and Inga in "Young Frankenstein" (1974)
Yes, a sad loss indeed.
She was great, always funny and charming. I liked her appearances on Letterman.
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I think Letterman had a thing for her as well.
@@solvingpolitics3172 I think you're right.
And also great in Close Encounters of the Third Kind...
Historical Fact: Advocatus Diaboli was an actual position in the Roman Catholic church. Essentially, in the past they were making too many saints so the church created a system where if someone wanted to propose making someone a saint, they would have a little trial where each side presented their arguments for and against, the side against was the Devil's Advocate. Famous writer Christopher Hitchens was the Devil's Advocate when they proposed Mother Teresa's canonization.
Ah, Hitchens Such a great man.
I can't believe they made that awful woman a saint. What she did is solidly under "evil" for my categorization.
That demonstrates why the system failed, if they could make a monster like that a saint. The whole Roman Catholic church has been evil for centuries though, so unsurprising really that they would canonise a monster who put a lot of money into their coffers. Also that's not actually accurate. The two miracles holds far more weight, even if the miracles being attributed to the particular saint are circumstantial at best. Hitchens was not Advocatus Diaboli, he did a documentary on her evils and the doctor who originally supported him withdrew the support calling the expose "slanderous" and decided he'd write a book about her instead. He's an atheist though so he's outside the auspices of the church and of god and so could not act in the stead as Diaboli.
@@CERULEANSPIRALWell... It IS The Vatican
In the scene on the rooftop, Pacino says “Little different when you’re looking down” - such a simple, yet complex line. Truly an underrated film.
yeah. i think the ending is kind of the idea that the test never ends. that pacino will always be there, at every turn, to guide you to the dark side. a really under-rated, under known movie. and the VFX work is phenomenal. not just in techincal achievement but the AESTHETICS. like the whole spiraling mural behind pacino in his "throne room". it starts as an abstract until you see it morph into a literal vision of hell. pretty sure all the figures in that mural were real people just painted white but the way they blended with the cgi... just really great execution. reminds me of constantine in that way. the vfx work is freaking top notch.
because you saw that recently, i was thinking that just as keanu is falling in slow mo, he'd give pacino the finger lol. and actually, you can say that this ending is similar to constantine... the devil won't give him the easy out with death. nono. you won this time but but time is on his side... he'll give him more time - another go on the merry-go-round. he'll mess up. and pacino will be there to cash in.
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I'm pretty sure that Was Trump's penthouse in Trump Tower. I didn't remember that from the first time I saw this movie! I also didn't remember Ferris Bueller's school principal in this movie, lol :P
Her questions at the end are the best reaction anyone has done of this movie. She got it all.
She thinks he "went back". Went back from where? and how?
Vanity gets them all in the end!
That place that you said is made of gold is actually trump Tower
It’s Trump’s actual penthouse apartment in Trump Tower.
HAR! Makes So much sense.
Not surprised tbh.
The devil you say!
If that's trump Tower? then NOTHING in there is real gold... 🤣
Good movie. I’ve watched it plenty of times. The girl in the court room is in a cool quirky movie called Welcome To the Dollhouse. The theme song is great also in it. You should check out Angel Heart since you liked this one. I don’t do heights either-lol. There are clues throughout this movie to let you know Pacino is the devil starting with his name. John Milton wrote Paradise Lost.
Amazing movie. Loved it back in the day in cinema. Still love it. Great acting all around. Pacino of course owns this. "Vanity--definitely my favorite sin."
Today is my birthday, I'm 34 this year!
This is one of my favorite movies from my childhood, with an interesting twist as well as having an allegory to John Milton's Paradise Lost.
Happy Birthday! 🎂🎉
Happy Birthday Shaine!
Enjoy 34, you are 10 years and 5 days younger than me. It will go fast. Happy Birthday
Happy birthday 🎉🎂🎁
Creepy and kind of subtle up to the end when Al goes full Pacino... and I love him for it
There's nothing quite like Keanu's southern accent.
Keanu's British accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula?
The gold apartment is actually Donald Trump's
Which would make Satan only the second most evil person ever to set foot in it.
@@rockyoumonkeys lmao brainwashed bozo 😅
@@rockyoumonkeys TDS much? Better start on stocking tissues, you only have five more days left before your five stages of grief will start again.
ITS SO MAGATARDEDLY UGLY
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Tell me what is wrong with Trump?
Thanks, Jen. Seeing this through your eyes was like watching it for the first time again.
"I'm a fan to man!" best delivery ever.
Regarding the end, my interpretation has always been that Kevin lived the timeline as shown, but then he beat the Devil through self-sacrifice . . . and so was given another chance. Maybe by God, or, perhaps more likely, by the Devil himself. You see, the Devil isn't going anywhere, and the fact that Kevin gets another chance means that the Devil has another opportunity too! (An interesting aside: Is this the first time this has happened, or has Kevin beaten the Devil before? How many times? But the Devil is tenacious, and Kevin has proven himself vulnerable to vanity, the very same sin that first took down the beautiful angel Lucifer himself. The Devil's not going to give up any time soon!)
When I first saw this, I thought Ashley Judd was playing Mary Ann but didn't realize my first introducing to Charlize Theron because I never seen her before 1997.
Another excellent reaction Jen. They are always the highlight of my day and congrats on hitting 87k subscribers you deserve it 🥂🔥
I love how eerie the shot of the empty streets are.
One of my favorite movies; right up there with “Jacob’s Ladder” and “Fallen”
Great review of a really good movie Jen!
I used to work for an architectural ironwork company, we did a lot of really high-end businesses and residences. Like insane money for old world style decorative metalwork. We did a bronze door for an elevator that was the front door of a penthouse in San Francisco. The elevator doors in this apartment were massive and the facia we made would not fit into the elevator itself, something we told the client about when we took the initial measurements. These door facias were a pair of 400lbs bronze panels with bas relief work cast into them. The mechanisms to open and close the doors were modified by the elevator company to handle their mass and they used a huge cargo helicopter to lift the facias into the building through the hole in the roof. The client did not bat an eye with the near million dollar bill it took to complete the job. We worked on houses that were over 50,000 square feet, that's the size of a small shopping mall.
Owners of properties like the Trump Tower in the movie just want what they want and they have the disposable income to make almost anything happen. Most of us will never comprehend the amount of money some people have, we think we do but very few really know.
Fun review as always! THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE still holds up as a sumptuous demonic fable with all cylinders firing. Thank you for presenting the movie in its original Panavision aspect ratio...
Saw this in the theater. Loved it ever since. Keanu took a pay cut so they could Pacino in it.
Don King is buddies with Satan. That's pretty damned realistic.
Best Devil in Movie-History. Pacino in his absolut Prime
Imagine you got so enraged one time that fire randomly exploded behind you...
One of my favorite movies. It is so well crafted.
Devil's Advocate is one of those under-appreciated movies that people seem to have simply forgotten over the last 20 years- Glad to see people starting to react to it. This really is one of those movies like The Game or The Sixth Sense, where it's best to know nothing about it coming in. (Anyone who didn't know who Milton really was from watching the trailer wasn't paying attention)
A couple of other forgotten movies you might want to check out sometime are Rollerball (1976) The Ice Pirates, The Prophecy and The Keep.
Milton: Who can deny that the 20th century has ENTIRELY belonged to me
Jen: (With her facial expressions and hand gestures) I mean…..
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This has always been one of my favorite movies. That finale alone makes it an instant watch.
Craig T. Nelson, who plays the murderous SOB Cullen is also the voice of Mr Incredible.
Al Pacino's speech is the only reason I'll watch this movie. Legendary actor
The name Milton is a reference to English writer John Milton who is famous for his epic poem, “Paradise Lost” It’s is in this poem where he coined the phrase, “It is better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven”
Amazing movie. The last 15 minuttes in the penthouse is magnificent.
I love how we finally got to see the family resemblance when the Devil's angelic features were revealed at the end.
Awesome! I love this movie! Keanu, Charlize and Al were great in this! Thanks for your reaction 👍👍👍👍
I once read a negative review of this movie saying that it's just an extended lawyer joke. That's what I love about it! I love the all out commitment, from the extravagant sets to delicious monologues to wild swings in mood. And Pacino looks like he's having the time of his life.
21:30 He already met his mother.
congratulations on making it through another spooky season Jen you did great and entertained us with your wonderful humour , screams , jump scares and gasps 🔥 , your blanket deserves to be nominated for an award for outstanding contribution to forming a safe space to ward off all things spooky 🙂 . we finish on this cool movie that was edited great and as always has wonderful commentary and jennerisms throughout . cheers for a wonderful month of content Jen you've been amazing 🔥💙🔥💙
I don't do heights either. The scene on the roof was one of the scariest.
Fun Fact.
It wasn't filmed on an actual roof or anywhere near a skycraper or tall building.
The sculpture you see in Al Pacino's lair is not the one that was filmed. Originally it was "Creation" by Frederick Hart, but they did not have permission and he sued Warner Brothers. They had to digitally replace the sculpture at great cost in all the scenes. You can find the original scenes on TH-cam.
So much talent in this movie
Another great reaction, Jen, I really enjoyed watching it. 🙂
I hope that your pets enjoyed the small things I included in my parcel for them?
You might enjoy Fallen with Denzel Washington and John Goodman. It's a similar good vs evil concept.
at 2:30 just to clear up your confusion, she was the only one he was NOT messing with, and she said "I didn't want to be the only one". she heard what was going on from the other girls. so he was terrible but because it wasn't happening to her and she was the only one who come forward, it ended up getting him set free.
39:41 "But they're...?" The opening credits didn't hide the fact this was an Andrew Neiderman novel. The sibling incest is mandatory!!!
I tend to agree with your "neverending spiral" theory, Jen, much like the battle between good and evil. Btw: the ending was so much better due to your dancing at the end. 😊
I only learned earlier this year that the painting / sculpture in Al Pacino's office is now CGI because it was too close to something else. The only official way to see it unblurred / un CGIed is if you can find a first printing DVD.
I think the ending implies that the devil can manipulate time, and return to the past to try something else, until the day he'll eventualy succeed. That's why he tells "I had so many children..." Maybe he's talking about previous versions of Keanu, who failed too. At least, that's how I always saw it.
Al Pacino's character's name is John Milton. John Milton was the author of "Paradise Lost".
12:44 "how many languages does he speak?"
All of them
Watched this at the theatre late at night with my wife, just the two of us. The theatre was empty. It was about 1 am when it was over. We stepped outside and there was not a soul anywhere. No traffic. No breeze. No sound. It was the eeriest sensation ever, especially after that movie. Couldn’t get home fast enough.
Great movie! Love the sculpture at the end!
Hey Hey there Jen Murray. First time I seen it was a mind blower. Hope you have a perfect night. ❤Love your reaction as always.
One of my favorite movies. 😍
And one of the most perfect monologues about god ever!
Al just playin himself.
A truly under appreciated film considering the extremely few hardly ever times is even on tv, the combo of Keanu Reeves Charlize Theron and Al Pacino in the same cast in this they are perfect together in their respective roles. A definitive Hollywood classic.
Welcome to one of the best movies ever made. You did an excellent job with your reaction. You didn’t talk over the actors and that is hard to do. Good job.
This was my best movie experience ever on first time viewing when it came out.
I saw this in the theatre in October 1997. I wanted to see a scary movie for Halloween but my date changed her mind and wanted to see this instead.
I thought we were watching a court room drama - I had no idea and I didn’t care because first date.
When the demon face appeared half way through the I hit the roof, like what the hell kind of movie is this?? I loved it.
I learned that the best way to experience a movie is by knowing as little as possible.
Love this one. Pacino is sooooo good in this. "I'm the hand up the Mona Lisa's skirt." What a line. What a delivery. "He's a SADIST!!!" That's one kills me.
Eddie was played by Jeffrey Jones. He was in "Ferris Bueler's Day Off" as Mr. Rooney!
You probably don't recognize him without the mustache, Jen.
🎼🎵🎶It happened in Monterey, a long time ago
I met her in Monterey, in old Mexico
Stars and steel guitars
And luscious lips, as red as wine
Broke somebody's heart
And I'm afraid that it was mine
It happened in Monterey
Without thinking twice
I left her and threw away the key to paradise
My indiscreet heart, longs for the sweetheart
That I left in old Monterey 🎶🎵
HEY! A southern accent is hard to do! I know, I had one.😊 thanks Jen! See you on the next one!
im pretty sure this wasn't the first pacino movie i ever saw, maybe i saw it at a very impressionable age (i assume 14-15 by its release)... but to this day when i see pacino, i see the devil... and still love this movie... theron and pacino are just so amazing in this.
Can never get enough of this movie great choice.
I love Charlize Theron. If I had not known she played Aileen Wuornos, I would not have recognized her.
14:40 I'm not sure. Have you seen Monster?
This movie never gets old because it a part of the power brokers today. great reaction!
One of my favorite Pacino performances -- after The Godfather and The Godfather Part II. Such a fun movie! Thank you for reacting to it.