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Maybe yes, maybe no. But before either the studio or the audience takes a write-off on this one, we should recall that those two stars, Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, are known for their ability to open a picture. More important, we should take into account the fact that this is really quite a good movie--a character-driven (as opposed to whammy-driven) suspense drama--dark, fatalistic and, within its melodramatically stretched terms, emotionally plausible...
...Pitt's Frankie McGuire is an assassin for an unnamed group of Northern Irish terrorists sent to America to evade the British secret service, whose noose is beginning to tighten around him. He carries a vast sum of money and instructions to purchase a shipment of Stinger missiles capable of rebalancing the power in Belfast. Given an assumed name and occupation, he enters the country, and the home of Ford's Tom O'Meara, as an ordinary immigrant needing a sponsor. Since Tom is a New York City cop of unquestionable honesty, Frankie's cover is perfect...
...that Pitt and the script cheat a little with his character, not investing him with quite the fanatical glitter a political gunman ought to exhibit. But you have to balance that against the reality of Ford's work--no one half-suppresses, half-reveals strong feelings better than he does--and director Alan J. Pakula's analogous strengths. Pakula (Klute, Presumed Innocent) develops his story patiently, without letting its tensions unravel. At a moment when everyone is saying the studios have lost the knack for making solid, broadly appealing entertainments, The Devil's Own suggests the skill may be only...
MOVIES . . . THE DEVIL'S OWN: Brad Pitt?s Frankie McGuire is an assassin for an unnamed group of Northern Irish terrorists sent to America to evade the British secret service, whose noose is beginning to tighten around him. Given an assumed name and occupation, he enters the country, and the home of Harrison Ford?s Tom O?Meara, as an ordinary immigrant needing a sponsor. Since Tom is a New York City cop of unquestionable honesty, Frankie?s cover is perfect. The script (by David Aaron Cohen, Vincent Patrick and Kevin Jarre) is good about not making too much...
Depp turned down the Keanu Reeves part in Speed and the Brad Pitt role in Legends of the Fall, becoming something rather old-fashioned, a character lead. But he worked in the kind of films--youth-oriented and fringy--that middlebrow traditionalists, the people who sniffishly deplore actors who "just play themselves," never go to see. This is their loss; they have missed out on the filmography of the most interesting actor...