Devil's Advocate MPAA Rating: R Entertainment: +3 Content: -3 1/2

Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) is a young Florida defense attorney who's never lost a case. He also enjoys a happy marriage with his young wife, Mary Ann (Charlize Theron). After winning a seemingly hopeless case -- one in which he knew his client was guilty, he is invited to New York by a powerful law firm. Kevin meets John Milton ( Al Pacino), the founder of the law firm and the Devil incarnate -- literally. Seduced by all the luxury, Kevin joins the team, and he and Mary Ann move into an elegant new home and begin a new life. But something in him changes, and winning becomes an obsession. When Mary Ann starts telling her husband that their life is not what it seems, he ignores her. When the firm's managing partner dies and Mary Ann's terrified perceptions pull her away from sanity, Milton keeps seducing his new protg with the luxuries available for those who are unafraid to sample them. But Kevin is beginning to be afraid. His trip to heaven is starting to feel like hell, and standing at the gates to welcome him is John Milton. Starpower will draw large crowds to the box-office, and sex and nudity will keep them drooling in their seats.

Satan, or Milton as he's known, loses this one, but not before the audience is exposed to graphic depictions of ever kind of sinful indulgence. The language is severe with many, many crude words and obscenities. The f-word alone occurs over fifty times. The Lord's name is taken in vain 27 times, including 11 uses of GD. The violence is no less severe. During several cases Kevin works, we see gory photos of murder victims, and a voodoo priest who removes a severed cow tongue from a freezer to place a curse on a man. Milton's demon-people occasionally regress into flashes of demonic form, and a man is viciously beaten to death. Another is hit by a car. But perhaps the greatest indulgence of the film lies in its depiction of sex and nudity. Viewers are constantly bombarded with seduction, graphic sex, and nudity including one scene containing full female frontal nudity. In the movie, the DEVIL'S ADVOCATE is a lawyer who helps the Devil do his work. Perhaps Satan's greatest ally is the film itself.

Preview Reviewer: Jason Shepherd
Distributor: Warner Brothers, 4000 Warner Blvd., Burbank, CA 91522