The Devil's Own

Devil's Own (1997)

  • 29% of critics liked it
    (34 reviews)

  • 45% of users liked it
    (42,214 ratings)

A policeman plays Good Samaritan to a visitor from Ireland, only to discover that he has a potentially deadly secret. Belfast-born Frankie McGuire (Brad Pitt) saw his father gunned down by enemy soldiers at the age of eight, and when he grew up he joined the Irish Republican Army, determined that… More

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Mar 26, 1997 Wide
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

    Presents itself as being about Something Important, whereas in fact it is really about nothing very much at all.

  • Bill Chambers, Film Freak Central

    Finally just another schoolmarmish prestige piece touting America's moral superiority

  • James Plath, Movie Metropolis

    A disappointing entry in the IRA thriller sub-genre. Ford and Pitt try their best, but Pitt was miscast and both were betrayed by a mediocre scrpt.

  • Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com

    What's left is a lot of moral grappling, not all of which has one iota of relevance to the plot.

  • Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

    A cobbled-together mess of conflicting tones.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Wahida K


    They came from different worlds. They fought for different causes.

  • Anthony L


    This film is as good as Brad Pitt?s Irish accent (although he mastered it in Snatch).

  • Jason O


    This has GOT to be the worst movie ever for both Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt. I found myself wondering throughout, "What is this movie even about?"

  • Coxxie M


    terrorists kidnapped Harrisons family again! part4584

  • Sophie B


    Awful. At first I thought the story sounded real good at it got off to a great start but it just didn't follow through and bored the pants off of me. I got interested in something else and couldn't follow the story. Ford seemed to do a pretty good job but Pitt was annoying… More

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