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Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
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Review

 

Master filmmaker Sidney Lumet directs this absorbing suspense thriller about a family facing the worst enemy of all - itself.

Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is an overextended broker who lures his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke) into a larcenous scheme: the pair will rob a suburban mum-and-dad jewelry store that appears to be the quintessential easy target. The problem is, the store owners are Andy and Hank's actual mum and dad and, when the seemingly perfect crime goes awry, the damage lands right at their doorstep.

Customer Reviews

 

Customer rating on Before The Devil Knows You're Dead: 4 out of 5 stars

Average rating (2 reviews)

Customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars The Best Crime Drama I've ever seen!

feldoln | 23/04/2008 | See all feldoln's reviews (36) »

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I'm not a big fan of crime films, but I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.

The acting was superb by all, the script was well written and everything seemed so natural, and emotional. Similarly to 'No Country For Old Men', there is almost no background music or sound in this film, which some people may find boring and in some cases ruin the movie. But it certainly didn't bother me. This movie keeps you brain active by putting the pieces together.

Although it's a fairly straight forward film, the film is divided into sections. At the beginning of the film, you see the main event happen. The next section is about four weeks before, and how they start to plan it all. the great thing about this movie is not that though, but all the drama that comes after. And how everything that could possibly go wrong, does.

This film is very different to most crime films, which puts it in a league of it's own. Highly recommended.

Customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars Not bad

Crewe8 | 11/02/2008 | See all Crewe8's reviews (75) »

I watched this film the other night, apart from it being 2hrs long it was entertaining...It has got a good plot, and the way they have done the film, you see it from everybodies eyes, from days before and days after the robbery...it keeps changing....Its not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but its worth a watch.

Technical Details

 

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei, Paul Butler, Leonardo Cimino, Arija Bareikis, Alex Emanuel, Jack Fitz, Rosemary Harris, Blaine Horton, Sarah Livingston, Aleksa Palladino, Amy Ryan & Michael Shannon

Sidney Lumet

2007

Widescreen 1.85:1 Anamorphic

English - Dolby Digital (5.1)

Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.

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