“Devil” is a movie that could have been so much more than it
turned out to be. I feel the largest distraction in the film is the character
Ramirez, a security guard who opens the film with a voice over about how his
mother would tell him stories about the Devil, and then he proceeds to tell
anyone who listens that what’s happening in the plot is just like those
stories. The next failing point about this movie is its lack of real scares;
there are a few moments but the great concept isn’t used or explored to its
full potential. And finally, the Devil that we see in this film lacks the
presence or feeling of evil that we have come to expect from such a character.
Overall, this movie is ok the first time through but is a burden to watch
again.
Five strangers become trapped inside an elevator within an
office building. When one of them is viciously murdered while the lights are
out, a pair of police detectives jump into action, having already been at the
building following up on a suicide the occurred earlier that morning. They
realize that they only know who four out of the five people are (they signed a
form before getting on the elevator), so this adds to the mystery of who’s who.
People continue to die until there is just one victim and the Devil itself. The
end.
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