The Devil's Own 1997 by AverageMansReviews

The Devil's Own 1997 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there will be flashing effects/colourful effects/domestic tourism/terrorism/domestic violence/religion/shooting/immigration/racism/bodily functions/medical/reference to Russia.

This film is based around the IRA: briefly; after some exposition character developments; Francis "Frankie" McGuire/other name [Younger: Shane Dunne/Older: Brad Pitt:] he is a member of the IRA and he has to go to the USA; New York City to complete this arms deal and whilst he is there, a supporter of the IRA pleases him family that has no idea who they have just into their own as he also has a false identity; this kind of family; the husband and father his name is Sergeant Tom O'Meara [Houston Ford:] he is a clean and hard-working police officer that opens his house and family to this stranger.

Generally speaking: the storyline/script; well I have to be honest in conjunction with the framework and pacing of this 111 minutes film there isn't much going on for large amounts of this movie and when it does get going, we are very quickly heading towards the final section of this project.

Action and art; obviously we have weapons being used and we get to see some Irish music being played

Character developments and performances; if this is what they were going for they hit the jackpot, I have to be honest I did cringe when Sergeant O'Meara was talking to his wife about this incident, as broadly speaking am paraphrasing for his entire career he hadn't done anything wrong and basically isn't going to start now: now here is why I cringed; I wasn't expecting him to keep this secret, but in the context of this film it highlights that a Caucasian, middle-class American that has no or very little concept of anyone remotely different or less than himself; basically what really got up my nose was how much of a sanctimonious person this individual is and allow me to make it crystal clear again I wasn't expecting him to overlook it, but please just get off your soapbox.

The performances were what you see is what you get Ford was trying to keep this film going and Pitt is as you will see is not the best here, on reflection and this is speculation but also a fair point; that this film is really quite a slow so in these two were left very exposed; I am not making any excuses here for them, just pointing out that this film has in essence no actual momentum so you can't paint over the cracks or better yet it magnifies any problems, but regardless this film is so dry that it could easily set tumbleweeds alight.

This film receives: 2/10, this film is poor; I mean this is where I would try to say something slightly positive, but anything other than me saying it had enough to scrape up to this mark would be a liar; so I am just going to stick to what islanders said and this film has 1 Negative award accredited to its name; The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 1997 Stinker Award Most Annoying Fake Accent Brad Pitt Shared with: Seven Years in Tibet