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Devil (2010)
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Critic Consensus: 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.
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Cast
as Detective Bowden
as Salesman/Vince
as Guard/Ben
as Elsa Nahai
as Old Woman
as Mechanic/Tony
as Young Woman/Sarah
as Lustig
as Ramirez
as Detective Markowitz
as Dwight
as Cheryl
as Henry
as Old Janitor
as Old Janitor
as Donnelly
as Chinese Man
as Janitor
as Firefighter
as Business Bureau Clerk
as Uni
as Fire Captain
as Firefighter Kurtzy
as Firefighter #2
as Wayne Kazan
as Officer Choi
as Car Crash Woman
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Critic Reviews for Devil
All Critics (99) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (49) | Rotten (50) | DVD (3)
Devil isn't really scary, the acting stinks, and it's not that clever, but you can rest knowing that the culprit isn't a hand puppet.
Nonsensical to the point that every element doesn't hold up to the least bit of scrutiny.
Circling wildly within the film's main set -- a stalled elevator car -- or hurtling up and down an empty shaft, Mr. Fujimoto's camera is as giddy as a tween at a Justin Bieber concert.
Though the poster bravely boasts this movie as being ''from the mind of M Night Shyamalan'', Devil is actually not an over-long, near-unwatchable piece of badly directed high-concept dross, but a tight little killer thriller.
Any fan of detective fiction will tell you that for a locked-room drama to work, you can't let anyone, including the reader, exit the locked room.
Shyamalan's story is sound, but the execution dragged me to hell and left me there wondering if his much-rumored sequel to Unbreakable was ever going to arrive.
Audience Reviews for Devil
I very much enjoyed this movie. It's tense and exciting. Worth the watch.
Super Reviewer
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.
Super Reviewer
Ramirez: You must consider that one of these people might be the Devil. "The Night Chronicles Begin." When Devil was first released, I remember not wanting to see it just because of M. Night's presence. However, if this is the best thing he's had attached to his name since Unbreakable. It's really not a bad movie at all and I, to my surprise, really enjoyed it. I liked the idea and it was just a lot of fun. It's not a movie that you'd call great, but as a nice little horror/suspense thriller, it works very well. Five people board an elevator, which gets stuck. A security guard believes, after some of the people in the elevator are attacked, that one of them is the devil. Soon a cop comes onto the scene and tries to figure out what is going on, but slowly the people on the elevator are killed one by one. Are these murders the work of someone with a motive, or is the devil really on board? There's the normal stupidity that goes with a movie like this, but overall it's all presented in a reasonable and competent way. It's probably one of the better "devil" related movies in recent memory, although that's really not saying a whole lot. So in the end, this is a film that is worth checking out even if you hate the post Sixth Sense, Signs, and Unbreakable work of M. Night. It isn't as good as any of those, but it's pretty good.
Super Reviewer
Devil Quotes
| Lustig: | What are you doing? |
| Ramirez: | Oh...when he's near...the toast falls jelly-side-down. |
| Mechanic/Tony: | Who are you? |
| Old Woman: | Today, I'm an old woman. |
| Old Woman: | Damn, I really wanted you. |
| Detective Bowden: | So no, I don't believe in the Devil. You don't need him, people are bad enough by themselves. |