The Devil All The Time

When I first heard this film was coming out, I only needed to hear two names: Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson. The thought of these two, Spiderman and Batman, sharing the screen and doing a film together had me really excited and from what I've seen today, this is a film that is gonna have a lot of people.

To start off the positives, without question, the best thing about this film is the cast. I will go as far as to say this is the best ensemble cast of this whole year. Besides the big name stars who I mentioned before, this film has actors like Sebastian Stan, Jason Clarke, Bill Skarsgard, Riley Keogh, Haley Bennett etc. This is an extremely well casted film and these actors do an incredible job but I don't want to sound biased but Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson are the two best stars.

Pattinson does not waste any of his limited screen time and he just embodies his despicable character and the accent he provides, I read he did it without a professional linguist and if that's true, give that man an award now because his accent and performance is purely phenomenal and with Holland, he just becomes such a different actor that we've seen him before. He may have won our hearts as Spiderman but this guy will terrify you as this young violent individual (that's all I'm saying) and so far gives the performance of his entire career.

I also really like the storytelling of this film as this is essentially a character study told in a very different and dark way and the dark tone has a helping hand in making it feel coherent.

Finally I appreciate that this film was unpredictable and I always prefer it when I have no idea what will happen in a film or how it will end.

Onto the mixed aspect of the film and really, it's me giving out a prior warning. As I said before this is a very dark and religiously thematic film and I can see this film dividing audiences. Some will love it for its boldness and dark storytelling and others will be put off by just how dark it is and find it distasteful. This film will not be for everyone.

With that said let's move onto the negatives and the first thing that comes mind are the religious themes. I'm not a religious person and this film primarily focuses on religion and faith and there's times where a lot of that aspects of the film just drew me out of it and I also felt it went too extreme with that subject matter. That's all I can say without giving major spoilers.

Also this film can feel like an audio book at times because this film is just filled with narration and while I didn't mind it at first, it ended frustrating me when it would tell us what's happening instead of letting me see for myself what would happen so I wish the narration was either brought down a bit or was cut altogether.

That's pretty much the only negatives I had. Overall this is a very well casted, brilliantly acted, dark but interesting film to watch that I really really liked watching and I want to see Tom Holland do more roles like this.

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