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starring: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino directed by: Taylor Hackford

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Average Rating: Rating: - Vanity...definitely his favorite sin. That's how Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves)in a suitably cold as ice portrayal of a young ambititious lawyer, gets more than he plea bargained for. ..............In the MANY times I've watched this movie, I was totally riveted. Al Pacino does it again with another stellar performance as the modern day Lucifer of the Legal World, ironically named John Milton ("Paradise Lost" author). His eerie chuckle while interviewing Kevin Lomax for a chance to legally bite the Big Apple, let's you know something is amiss. Of course, if you've seen the Exorcist, or know some folklore, the moment you realize that John Milton can fluently speak any language he needs at the moment, tips you off to who the "Devil" Mr. Milton actually is...(the devil supposedly speaks all languages). .............I enjoyed Milton's phone conversations in Russian, a language I have a good working knowledge of. I also dug his sexually provocative Italian converstion with Connie Neilsen aka "Kristabella" whom John Milton has set up Kevin to lust after the moment he sees her. The part where Milton speaks mandarin to a street vendor in China Town...PLEASE! How many non-Asian people besides Mira Sorvino can master that tongue and not be suspect? .................One of the best scenes for Milton's amazing language ability is when he's going to a championship boxing match on the train with Kevin and two latino wanna-be toughs are nearby. Milton can't help but stare one down, so one guy gets ready to "get down in the trenches", as Milton would put it, but the pulled knife freezes when Milton tells the guy that the minute he left his apartment, his wife went upstairs to his Buddy Carlos' house to split a "Jumbo" of crack, and get it on upon their green bedspread "especial." The whole thing sounded so melifluous said in Spanish, and so funny when you're reading the subtitles as he speaks! ..................Meanwhile, Kevins wife MaryAnne, played brilliantly by Charlize Theron, gave up her questionably successful real estate career to faithfully stand by Kevin. The price she pays for her unswerving loyalty, sanity AND vanity. She loses confidence in herself completely, letting Milton choose her hair style and color, and her snobby neighbor (Tamara Tunie, "Eve's Bayou") choose house paint color. She feels out of her league and inadequate "swimming with the sharks" as Milton puts it. .................Especially surrealistic and nightmarish are the hallucinations that MaryAnne begins to have. We aren't told, but I assume Milton is entering her mind and playing evil tricks. There's a ghastly one where MaryAnne imagines a baby is playing with her reproductive organs. Subsequently, she finds out days later she's barren, also courtesy of Milton's magic I suppose. Then Kevin sees Kristabella before him in MaryAnnes place while making love. These images that Milton creates are very real and powerful. The image that really made me jump in my chair was when MaryAnne goes dress shopping with her neighbor and Eddie Barzou's (Firm Partner)wife. See for yourself if you flinch when you view the film............... Milton keeps this up through several more interesting turns, and finally he drives MaryAnne right where he planned to from the beginning. Milton then gets Kevin right where he wants him, until the "free will" he tells Kevin is his perogative, interferes with the outcome of Milton's ultimate plan.................. Here's a film where the beginning, straight to a long amazing ending, (which leaves room for a part two)...will run you through a gamut of emotion, and leave you totally satisfied, yet wanting more, hence the ironic closing image that lets us know, some folks never learn. Rating: - A damned good movie One of the remarkable things about this film is that it features some quite long and rather philosophical monologues by Al Pacino that don't drag down the action at all -- this is as much an effect of the script and direction as it is of Pacino's riveting hand-in-glove performance as Satan, head of a powerful Manhattan law firm. If you can look past his hokey Southern accent, Keanu Reeves delivers one of his better performances as well, playing the film's fatally flawed central character with considerable finesse. This film is as much about Manhattan as it is about moral conflict, and features some stunning interior design. One of the revelations of the DVD edition is that the one really tastelessly decorated apartment in the movie, an ostentatious gold-leaf and brass abomination, is in fact Donald Trump's real-life penthouse. Rating: - Sinful pleasure Al Pacino as Satan. Brilliant. Keanu Reeves with a faux southern accent. Eh, whatever. Charlize Theron. Does the word hominahominahomina mean anything to you? This movie has it all, from humor, to suspense, to even a little horror. Rest assured, it will freak you out, but not in the give-you-nightmares kinda way. More like the did-I-really-just-see-that kinda way. You'll want to watch this one at least twice. Pacino really nailed this part. I've never met Satan personally, but I have to imagine that he's gotta be something like this. Every imaginable pleasure is at his disposal, everything that might have been good is perverted, and lies and truth are spun together to the point that they are indistinguishable. Truly a master performance. Reeves does remarkably well, despite his awful accent. I'm not usually too impressed with his performances, but he pulls this one off quite nicely. There's not too much to say other than that. All in all, I would recommend this movie to just about anyone, except children or the easily offended. It definately has its moments that aren't for everyone's eyes or ears, but it is still a fantastic story with fantastic characters.

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