Review of The Devil's Own (1997) by Zane T — 25 Jun 2011

Back in the mid-1990s, there was this fasicnation with the United Kingdom that many movies were about England, Scotland and Ireland, such as Trainspotting, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Braveheart, Rob Roy, The Full Monty, etc.

Well, this was one of the so-so ones. The plot is that Brad Pitt plays an IRA terrorist who travels to New York City to purchase some Stinger nuclear missiles (?) from an arms dealer played by Treat Williams who career hit a small rebound at this time.

Pitt stays with a NYPD sergeant played by Harrison Ford who for some reason is really to open his home to a complete stranger and apparently, since he is Brad Pitt, not of Ford's daughters including a young Julia Stiles are attracted to him.

Apparently, Ford and Pitt have some bonding over a game of pool and later as Ford's partner shoots an unarmed thug and claims it was self-defense and well eventually, since it is a non Indiana Jones-Star Wars Ford movie, his family, or at least his wife is put in jeopardy and there is some type of climax in which the arms dealers are killed and now Ford goes after Pitt and the credits roll and we hear traditional Irish music.

It's a mess, but it's nice to see Pitt as a baddie, even if he is painted as a pretty boy with a bad Irish accent.