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It's better than many of the other films M. Night Shyamalan has been associated with, but Devil never gets more than a few low-budget thrills out of its fiendishly promising premise. Read critic reviews
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Five strangers' day begins with an elevator ride in a Philadelphia office tower. But, what happens next is anything but ordinary. The elevator gets stuck, and the trapped passengers, who expected to be together just a few minutes, now face the revelation of their secrets and transgressions. Frightening events turn annoyance into terror, as they begin to realize that one of their number is Lucifer himself.
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Rating: PG-13 (Language|Disturbing Images|Sexual References|Thematic Material|Violence)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery & thriller
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Original Language: English
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Director: John Erick Dowdle
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Producer: M. Night Shyamalan, Sam Mercer
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Writer: Brian Nelson, M. Night Shyamalan
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Box Office (Gross USA): $33.6M
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Universal Studios
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Production Co: Universal Pictures
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Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
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Produced by M. Night Shyamalan, Devil is an intense supernatural thriller. The story follows five strangers who get stuck in an elevator and begin to turn on each other after one of them is attacked and killed during a power outage, meanwhile some unknown force seemingly prevents rescue from the outside. The script is especially well-written, and really brings dramatic tension to the situation. The storytelling too is quite engrossing; drawing the audience into the mystery of who the characters are and what is happening. A riveting and well-crafted film, Devil does an extraordinary job at exploring the themes of paranoia and fear.
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The movie lays out exactly what is happening through a bunch of cliched characters and occasional terrible voice over. This robs the film of any real suspense and by the time they do reveal the devil I had already stopped caring.
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With such an intriguing premise, this Twilight Zone-esque movie could have been scarier and much more claustrophobic, but it only manages to be a satisfying supernatural Agatha Christie-like story whose merits are due more to its solid direction than to its weak script.
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Devil has one of the coolest concepts I've been presented with. Imagine that the Devil was expelled to Earth, and never left. He takes human form and hunts down groups of evil-doers, traps them together in a confined area, then turns them against each other, forcing them to kill one another out of fear, or secretly killing them off himself, before they have a chance to make up for their sins, thusly securing their place in Hell. The Devil's been doing this forever, and with modern-day folk in a modern-day world, he is never in short supply of wicked people or tight spaces. Unfortunately, where it fails is in the writing. The direction of John Erick Dowdle (The Poughkeepsie Tapes, Quarantine) is brilliant, there's no flaw in the acting, the premise is, as mentioned incredible, it's a perfectly creepy supernatural horror set in a suburban nightmare, but it's just not good enough. Sounds ridiculous, but when they chose not to set the entire film in the box (à la Buried) then they have no excuse not to give us some set-up with the characters who we're supposed to be keeping an eye, given that one of them's meant to be The Devil and all, when in actual fact I cared much more about the Police Detective and Head of Security (above), because their interactions seemed genuine, and were actually interesting. It's probably unfair of me to blame the film's problems on M. Night Shyamalan, but I'm gonna do that anyway, because I don't like him. I think he's one of the most self-centred and ridiculous directors out there, which is even worse given that he hasn't released anything of value since The Sixth Sense over 10 years ago (an argument could probably be made for Signs, but personally I don't really care for it, and even taking that into account, he immediately followed that one with the release of The Village, which was an absolute insult to the Horror genre, and don't even get me started on the work he's done since then...). I can forgive the fact this movie revolves around a spiritual entity I don't believe in roaming the Earth killing people for things as lame as "assault" or "investment fraud", I can chock that all down to freedom of exploring the supernatural, and the suspension of disbelief, but if screenwriter Brian Nelson (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night) seriously expects us to believe that Emergency Services would take several hours to get to a building in city central when a police detective is watching them being killed off one by one, then he obviously has no respect for his audience. The film would almost certainly appeal to enthusiasts of Agatha Christie type works, people who care about South American mythology, and (God help me if they still exist) M. Night Shyamalan fans. I found it to be better than most of his recent work, but ultimately nothing compared to the oh-so-promising premise that we we were offered. 44% -Gimly
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