Movie Review: Devil
It really is in the details
I first became aware of this film through its trailer. The idea seemed fairly original and the preview looked appealing. That was until the end when the name M. Night Shyamalan flashed across the screen. Suddenly I knew exactly what kind of movie it was going to be.
This picture was not directed by Shyamalan, but it certainly has his stink all over it. A good concept that’s poorly constructed, with sub-par acting of over written characters, oddly placed humor (both intentional and unintentional), and not to be forgotten the big M. Night twist ending!
A seemingly random series of events brings five complete strangers to the same elevator at the same time. When the car gets stuck in the shaft and mayhem ensues they all discover that one of them is not what they seem (twist!).
All is well for the first twenty minutes as the scene for the elevator sets up naturally. There is a sense of dread as the doors shut and you realize that one of the five people in the elevator is the devil himself. For a brief moment it seems that there is a good horror/thriller about to take place, and then one character opens his mouth (this guy).
Jacob Vargas’ role in Devil is so contrived and forced that it seems to bleed Shyamalan’s desire for the viewer to “get” his fable/horror/thriller/mystery giant pile of mess. He is only in the movie to spoon feed plot points to the audience at an insulting frequency. Of course, this resulted in a round of laughter from the crowd almost every time he spoke. Simply removing every one of his lines from the script would have redeemed this movie…but M Night got to have his twist!
The remainder of the film is halfway entertaining between the cheap scares from manufactured claustrophobia when the lights go off in the elevator to the occasional jump out of your seat jolt, but there is nothing too memorable to be found here. Though I still found myself slightly caring to know which one of the actors was really the devil.
As the end nears, you know what is coming, its twist time! Once the devil is revealed we are treated to one of the worst and nonsensical interactions in fable/horror/thriller/mystery/morality tale movie history. The final act between the devil and his last victim is so ridiculous that you cant finish laughing before you realize that you just had another big fat piece of twist pie shoved down your throat. If the movie were to end there it would just be laughable, but alas it continues on. M Night cant let you go with out shoving a little morality up the ass in your face and it ends up being just annoying and painful to watch.
If hell is having to do the same thing over and over again, Devil has to be added to the growing list of Shyamalan’s movies that I am sure are shown there.
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