Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead | Ethan Hawke
Posted on May 5, 2008 in the Don't Waste Your Cash, Movie Reviews, Ok Movie but Wait for DVD category
“Before the Devil Knows Your Dead”, directed Sidney Lumet disappoints. This movie disappoints because the plot never really has a focus. There is not a protagonist throughout the movie. The watcher does not know who he is suppose to be rooting for. Ethan Hawke is the closet thing we have to a protagonist be even he causes a horrible death because of his greed and he is also having sex with a married women played by the stunning Maris Tomei. His brother played by Philip Seymour Hoffman is by far the worst character throughout the movie. He is greedy, selfish, cruel, a drug addict, and a jerk. So at least we know who we are not suppose to be rooting for. Throughout the movie one does not really know where the plot is headed because it doesn’t really have a direction. The acting is actually very good, but that can not save the movie. I give it a C.
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