The Devil's Advocate adapted from the novel with same name by Andrew Neiderman. The story of the film centers on Kevin Lomax, a young lawyer from Gainesville, Florida, who has never lost a case, get an offer to work with high salary on - and eventually joins the world's most powerful law firm: Milton, Chadwick & Waters.
Lomax begins spending his time at work, leaving his wife depressed and abandoned. However, He discover that John Milton, his boss, has freaky personality and his wife starts witnesses demonic apparitions. Kevin Lomax face a dilemma, and he start find out about the grand scheme his boss is running.
The Devil's Advocate directed by Taylor Hackford. Al Pacino plays John Milton, Kevin Lomax' boss and mentor, and the head of the New York law firm Milton, Chadwick & Waters. Keanu Reeves play as ambitious young defense attorney Kevin Lomax. Lomax wife, Mary-Ann Lomax, was played by Charlize Theron. Another casts including Connie Nielsen as Christabella Andreoli, Jeffrey Jones as Eddie Barzoon, and Craig T. Nelson as Alexander Cullen.The Devil's Advocate has some allusions to John Milton's classic epic poem, The Paradise Lost. Even the name of Pacino's character in the film, John Milton, was named after the author's name. Milton's famous quotation "Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven" says by Lomax in Milton's office was quoted from Book I Line 263 of the same work.
The Devil's Advocate was filmed in some notable locations, including Trump Tower, Goldman Sachs building, and Bergen County Courthouse in Hackensack, New Jersey.
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