The film opens in court, and although the critics more or less know that Theorod's acting skills and aura can change at will like a chameleon, they are still amazed by the animally face of the genius lawyer on the screen who is clever but indulges in vanity and pride. His just right intonation and subtle gestures almost instantly told all the audience sitting in the theater what kind of person Kevin was.

There is no doubt that the image of this lawyer has been very successful. Yes, Theorod's acting skills have been proven at the beginning of the film, but these are not enough, if Kevin is just a vain and competitive person, he has no personality charm as the protagonist.

Film critics continue to wait and see with one thought or another.

Pacino's Milton appears, and his first rivalry with Kevin draws everyone's attention again. Pacino's performance style is completely different from Theolod's, almost every role he plays will have his own personal color and aura, he is good at using his aura to shape the character image, and then use lines and actions to perfect the role, and the person who plays against him has to pick up 120,000 points of attention, otherwise it is easy to be overwhelmed by his powerful acting skills.

But instead of being suppressed, Kevin on the screen seems to be at ease, and he can even pull the audience's attention back to him when people's attention is about to shift to Milton. At that moment, the proud hypocrite became less obnoxious and more of a bastard-like attraction.

Maybe ordinary audiences just think that Kevin's depraved and cunning temperament combined with his delicate and harmless face makes them discover that flawed protagonists can also become extremely charming, but these professional film critics can see that this is Theolod who uses his acting skills to make the audience have a sense of substitution, so that they are gradually assimilated by his pride, watching him mix well in high society, and follow him step by step towards depravity.

As the film enters the high/climactic stage, the film critics, who are still surprised on the premise of knowing Milton's identity, suddenly realize where their surprise came from, which makes them even forget to put pen to paper - why did they not notice the traps and baits set by Milton before, and now after the truth is revealed, before looking back, they suddenly realize? Because of Kevin, because of Theorod, his acting skills are so strong that he can make all the audience be blinded by Milton and fall into his language trap like Kevin!

Looking at the screen, Milton's step-by-step pressure and Kevin's step-by-step retreat, the tension between the two of them even made the audience involuntarily hold their breath, as if they were afraid that they would disturb the two people on the screen because of excessive breathing, or because they were a little careless, they missed one or two crucial lines, or a hearty play.

Until the end of the film, justice is not a reversal of the victory over evil, Satan restarts this qiē, leaving only a meaningful smile for the audience, and the line that is enough to make people chew repeatedly - "Vanity is my favorite original sin." The hearts of the people in the screening hall who had just relaxed were raised to their throats again. The director didn't explain what happened next, but everyone in the audience knew that Kevin might never escape Milton's palm, which couldn't help but make them admire the ingenuity of the director's open-ended ending, but also a little more emotional about fate.

This film, which is very different from previous religious thrillers, received enthusiastic applause from the audience after the screening. They are different from professional film critics, some of them are for big-budget cult films, and more for the starring role of the film. "Devil's Advocate" not only satisfies their demand for thriller horror films that are so tense that they are suffocating that they are interlocked, but also satisfies their pleasure of appreciating the drama of two powerful acting schools, and even several female characters in the film, especially the role of Marianne, have a lot of outbursts, which makes them decide that this is a good film at the first time.

Unlike ordinary audiences, professional film critics need to pay attention not only to the performance of the actors, but also to the level of the director, the rigor of the script, the details such as lighting, and even the props and special effects. So while they applauded, they slowly pondered their own film reviews in their hearts.

Although most of them are not like some satirical film critics such as Shawn Thorpe, who openly make statements that no matter how strong an actor is, he will be ruined by a bad script, but they have also thought about this problem more or less in their hearts, and there are countless good actors who have been ruined by bad scripts and directors, not to mention that the religious fantasy theme itself is not pleased.

But...... Why is it that even if they don't publish it publicly, their faces still ache faintly?

As for those who thought Theorod would be holding back when they first heard that Theorod would be acting on the same stage as Pacino, their faces were already swollen, and even if many of them were swollen in the face, they still covered their faces and willingly shouted "Good fight, good fight!" -

"I apologize for what I said before, really, I'm sorry, Theo, you won't drag Al down at all and ruin 'Devil's Advocate', on the contrary, you are an indispensable soul character in 'Devil's Advocate'. I was going to see it for Al, but the whole movie came down...... My eyes, my heart, have always been glued to Kevin. Anyway, I'm going to join Theo's fan forum quickly. A fan who had previously strongly protested Theolod starring in the film Pacino commented after watching the premiere.

And his comment has been endorsed by many netizens.

"That's right, I was also taken away by Kevin the whole process, this is incredible!Especially the last big explosion of acting, in addition to the older generation of actors, it is the first time I have seen a newcomer who can force Pacino to the point of an explosion of acting! And he is not suppressed at all!" - Locke, who was locked by imdb netizens.

"When I saw the trailer, I was still hesitating whether I should buy this movie ticket for the zero o'clock premiere, but now it seems that ...... It's worth it! I'll die of regret if I don't buy it!Haha, I can show off to my friends to my heart's content now. - Netizen Wendy 1981.

"I said before, I'll see that it has a little suspense, and for the sake of the two male protagonists, go to the cinema to see what is going on, and then come back to write a movie review to give you a little advice......" Previously, after the terrible trailer of "Devil's Advocate" was released, IMDB netizens Gary and Carrie, who volunteered to act as drug testers, expressed their opinions as promised.

"My advice is that the trailer is a piece of shit compared to the movie itself, and the director cut the trailer either drunk or didn't wake up, or handed it over to an intern who didn't graduate from editing! ”

What? A movie that can definitely get the golden sour plum from the trailer can really make people nervous until the last moment? Countless fans who were waiting on the sidelines couldn't help but be a little puzzled when they saw the comments made by these people who got the zero o'clock premiere tickets the next day, so they turned up the film reviews of major newspapers one after another.

"Audiences who love thrillers, definitely don't miss "Devil's Advocate". You can get a glimpse of Milton's identity from the trailer, but this spoiler doesn't make the film any less suspenseful. Kenny Dayne, a film critic from The Washington Post, said that before that, he had also made his own very disappointed comments because of the bad trailer. But after watching the film, he changed his words again and slapped himself in the face.

"In the first ten minutes, you can determine what kind of genius Kevin is, and when you follow Kevin step by step to high society, follow him into Milton's trap, and be manipulated by his words step by step, you will understand that the so-called genius is also a human after all, and no matter how perfect a person is, there will always be flaws in front of Satan. Kevin isn't the screaming and silly heroine of your average B-movie horror movie, it's just that his genius succumbs to the dark side of his heart. ”

He then praised director Jackford for his handling of the plot, but he also pointed out that he still needs to improve his pacing, although most viewers are attracted by Kevin and Milton's expression and ignore the shortcomings of loose and tight pacing. In the end, he gave "Devil's Advocate" a good evaluation.

It's just that his film review, in the eyes of Sean Thorpe, is not so good-looking. Because he once compared Kevin to the heroine of a B-movie horror film rather than a successful genius, and criticized the film for not having anything to do with the thriller - he was telling the truth, because it was true from the trailer, but the movie itself...... The trailer and it are not at all comparable.

When Sean Thorpe saw half of it, he knew that this would happen, and he could only scold the person who edited such a failed trailer in his heart, hoping that the other party would be fired immediately.

But on the other hand, he couldn't give in and was willing to let others point to his face and hit him, so, in his film reviews, he never mentioned the actor's appearance, but did his best to criticize the movie itself-

If Taylor Hackford thinks that the so-called suspenseful thriller with a religious theme is a pretense of fantasy, then he is very wrong, and the suspense that can be explained by magic and witchcraft is not suspense at all, and perhaps he should read the work of Conan Doyle and see if the master explains all the cases with magic. If all my doubts can be answered in this way, then I can also let the so-called Zodiac Killer be a demon from hell. ”

"I can see what the director is really trying to say, but maybe he can't speak so clearly that in the end he wants to leave people with a suspense to guess for themselves. People watch suspense movies to find the answer, rather than having to think about the answer for themselves after watching a movie with a far-fetched story. Judging from his expression of the deep meaning of the story, the film is still superficial. ”

"In addition, I need to change the lighting engineer for the construction of the crew. Maybe the gaffer figured out that some hazy and white lighting effects in Guò showed a dreamlike life of high society, but his level did not reach this height, so much so that it was like using an inferior lamp, and I am sure that the audience would not want to go to the cinema to watch the film, and wait for a long time to see the image clearly and think it was a player failure, but they didn't want it because the gaffer was asleep. ”

There are a lot of criticisms like Shaun Thorpe, but most of them are aimed at the pacing of the plot. And there are a few excellent film critics who have found a similar situation to "First Class Fear". For example, the famous film critic Roger Ebert, who was extremely optimistic about Theorod in "First Degree Fear", said:

"The fundamental reason why movies involving religious themes have not sold well over the years is that religion is sacred, and people can't accept suspense films with insufficient logic rigor and too many loopholes, nor can they accept pseudo-religion that is too metaphysical and magical, let alone the preaching that naturally arises because of too strong religious flavor. ”

Director Taylor Heckford has deftly avoided the worst aspects of religious films that disgust the masses and instead focused on human nature, and in that respect, he has undoubtedly succeeded. But he didn't want to express the humanity he wanted to tell in a didactic way, he needed a carrier, a vehicle that could completely bring these words together and express them naturally through guò performance. ”

"This medium is Kevin Romans, or Theolod Lecht, and John Milton, or Al Pacino is the promoter of this medium, so that the film is balanced by the mediator of the 'Epilogue' and 'Didactic Method'. Kevin is a genius and a human being, and it is obvious from him that the influence of external temptations such as power, money, beauty, and status on the human heart, Pacino gave the rhythm of this influence, and Theo grasped this rhythm and brought it into his own performance, showing the depraved process of a proud man of heaven, the process of change in human nature. ”

Just as shown in the movie, Kevin is afraid of his child Marianne, and humans are also afraid of the dark side of their hearts, and this fear is even greater than the fear of the unknown in the outside world. But there is always a good side to human nature, and Kevin, who has nothing, uses it to defeat Milton. At the end of the film, when Kevin returns to the very beginning of the courtroom, refuses to defend a sinner, and gives up his winning streak, I thought that this is what Heckford wanted to say, that the bright side of human nature will always triumph over the dark, but in the end I was wrong, Kevin is still seduced by the reporter in Milton's incarnation, and human nature will always give in to these temptations. ”

"For some reason, I thought of 'Fear of the First Degree' again, and I said that 'Fear of the First Degree' has achieved more than the film itself because of Theorod, and now, I think it's the same. Without Theo and Pacino's unparalleled performances, "The Devil's Advocate" would have been a mere superficial and inexhaustible mediocrity, but Heckford would have had to thank his actors, and "The Devil's Advocate" would have to thank them. Thanks to its genius who can quietly convey the meaning of the film to the audience through guò acting and make them have a lingering aftertaste after watching it, and thanks to a perfect conciliator who can make preaching no longer like preaching, they are the ones who make this film. ”

Later, Roger Ebert also pointed out the plot flaws that other critics have pointed out, but he did show that if it were not made up for by Theolod's acting skills, which can attract the attention and attention of the audience throughout the whole process, these flaws will be even more obvious and unacceptable.

In the end, according to his usual practice of commenting on films, he gave "Devil's Advocate" a three-star rating and gave a thumbs up to the two leading actors who had exploded in their acting skills.

It seems that "Devil's Advocate" is really good, which makes many viewers who are wandering because of the trailer decide to find time to go to the cinema to have a good look. Those who have a heart also began to speculate that if the momentum of "Devil's Advocate" is unexpectedly good, then what about "One Shot"?