Movie Review: "The Devil's Own" 03/26/97

This is a movie review for "The Devil's Own", released in the United States on March 25, 1997. We own this movie on VHS, so I watched it a few months ago (Sorry for the delay for the review! Day job keeps me busy way more than I wish it did.).


Trailer

Cast
Harrison Ford ... Tom O'Meara
Brad Pitt ... Rory Devaney / Francis Austin McGuire
Margaret Colin ... Sheila O'Meara




Plot
Northern Ireland 1972 - a young boy watches his father being shot to death at the supper table. Twenty years later, we find out that the boy was Francis Austin McGuire and that his father had been killed for supporting the Irish republic for Ireland to be rid of British rule. Now a man, Francis (Frankie) is also fighting for Irish independence with the IRA [Irish Republican Army] but he needs some more weapons to fight the war against the British military. To do so, he goes to America. A supporter of the IRA gets him lodging with a New York cop named Tom O'Meara. As Frankie (known as Rory in the US) gets his provisions together to bring back to Ireland, everything goes to crap. The black market provider attacks the home that he is in as well as captures and tortures a friend of his that had come to the US prior to Frankie's arrival, and the US and British governments are coming after Frankie for his acts of war that he had committed in Ireland. Can Frankie get the armaments back to Ireland so he can save his country?






Rating Criteria

0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.

2/5 - Character development was absolute rot. Sure, Rory and Tom got to know each other but it seemed very superficial since Frankie was just trying to get weapons to bring back to Ireland. The relation that Frankie made with an Irish girl during the movie was also very shallow in depth. Maybe the character needed to have very little ties with those that he was interacting with because he was a product of the fight for the IRA? Maybe Frankie didn't have any other thought or feelings because he knew he would just have to go fight anyways?

Harrison Ford was a pleasure to watch, as always, but he was the only thing that kept me watching. I highly do not suggest this but you can do what you want. If you want to watch it, go for it but don't say I didn't warn you.





Thanks for reading my review!
~ Gracie










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