Review: Before the Devil Knows Your’re Dead
Penguin February 17th, 2008
Rating: 2.5/4 stars
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead is about two brothers who plan a heist of their family jewelry shop, but goes horribly wrong.
Philip Seymour Hoffman does an amazing job of portraying Andy. He’s calculating but flawed and conflicted. This, amongst his many other films, shows what a versatile and talented actor he is.
The movie starts off with a bang, showing the failed robbery, and going back to show you everything leading up to it. This is an effective way to tell the story because you know that everyone is fair game. As new scenes are introduced, it sheds light on everything that’s come before. There’s a point where all of it becomes inevitable and you can start seeing the strings. You hope that some of these strings get pulled and others you hope will just kind of hang.
That’s the only real problem with the movie. It gets to the point where it’s just too over the top. They’re just piling more and more on to the point where its lost any sort of tension because a) you know where it’s all going and b) things get so ridiculous, you’re just tired of it all.
-Penguin
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