Catches two of our great actors at their respective peaks. Middle aged Al Pacino just after Glengarry Glen Ross and Heat---foaming at the mouth, deranged bellowing. And Keanu Reeves, only a few years after Speed and Point Break with his characteristic nuance: impassive, enigmatic and shifting. And the third star, New York City, is just as charismatic.
Like all the best films about America, Devil's Advocate is about competing visions of the American dream---in this case rural or urban, corporate…
