Keanu Reeves completely ruins this movie...
Nuff said...Extremely unbearable to watch in the court scenes..
shareI thought he was good except for a small handful of times where his southern accent sounded unintentionally funny.
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MovieChat Forums > The Devil's Advocate (1997) Discussion > Keanu Reeves completely ruins this movie...
He was pretty bad when he tried to act in the 90s, especially when he did accents, though showed signs of improvement in The Gift
shareaccent aside (problem with most actors)
he is good here!!
Yeah, I thought he was really good. Not at Pacino's level, of course, and Theron rocked every scene she was in, but Reeves was good. One of his best. The accent was bad, but he seems to only do it in half the scenes he's in, so it's not like we had to suffer the whole time. Plus, his generic southern US accent wasn't as bad as the speech impediment he had during Dracula.
shareApart from the accent (which I can get over) I thought this was some of his best acting. Especially the scene in the hospital when he wants to stop Charlize Theron's character from killing herself and afterwards. The entire scene with Pacino at the end was incredibly well acted (I'm a lawyer, I don't lose, I win, that's my job!) is just one of those scenes that always grabs me from beginning to end.
shareReeves is great as a taciturn action man, and hit-or-miss outside of that wheelhouse. But, yeah, this is a hit. Yes, his accent is dodgy, but not as distracting as his English "accent". He's great here. I also like him more and more. I think he's gotten better. Although The Devil's Advocate is an older movie, he's good here. But generally I think he's improved. Henry's Crime is a pretty neat little movie and he's good as more of a "regular Joe" in that one. He's a weird cult leader/post-apocalyptic desert lord in The Bad Batch. It's not a great movie - very uneven - but Reeves is interesting in it. I also liked him in The Neon Demon as the sleazy motel guy.
Yeah, he's great in the scenes you single out.
He's not one of my favorite actors but I think that's just it, KR is not an actor, he's a movie star. I believe there is a difference. He was pretty good in The Matrix films though.
One of the best parts in this movie is when Pacino acts like Reeves for a few seconds, that scene is so funny. Al totally nails that dry emoting KR has. And wouldn't you know it... its on youtube...
fast forward to the 3:24 mark... (***SPOILERS****)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Hzn1ko7WE
Dude, that’s not Pacino ‘acting like Reeves’, it’s a Reeves audio clip dubbed over Pacino. Pacino’s just mouthing along, like when he sings that Sinatra song a few minutes later.
shareIt really sounds like Pacino to me. You got a link confirming that it's not Pacino's voice? I decided to throw in my DVD of this movie, turn on the audio commentary and fast forward to this part of the film and unfortunately, Hackford makes no comment on it.
Still, either way, he definitely captures that dryness of Keanu's acting style. lol...
Haha! It just is. It’s too exact, Pacino is not a versatile voice actor, he’s playing the devil who can pull all kinds of supernatural trickery, and he does exactly the same thing minutes later with Sinatra 🤷🏻♂️ It’s Keanu’s voice.
shareHe is good at action, but not acting. It seems he has at least figured that out.
shareWorse Southern accent. Even more egregious than Spaniel Craig's.
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