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'The Devil You Know' movie review: Slow-paced, unexciting melodrama
Updated On: 09 June, 2023 03:09 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas
The narrative starts off slow and ploddy and then gets melodramatic while alternating with tedious dialogue and a turn of events that becomes unintentionally farcical
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Still from The Devil You Know
Film: The Devil You Know (Lionsgateplay release)
Cast: Omar Epps, Will Catlett, Glynn Turman, Curtiss Cook, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Erica Tazel, Vaughn W. Hebron, Michael Beach, B.J. Britt, Keisha Epps, Ashley Williams, Tami Mac, Murray Gray, Jeph Loeb, Conor Sherry, Sarah Minnich, Theo Rossi, and Michael Ealy
Director: Charles Murray
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 114 mins
Family fracas merges with crime drama in this investigative thriller that plays so slowly that you tend to lose interest. Charles Murray’s “The Devil You Know” features Omar Epps but his name and performance are just not enough to keep you interested.
Marcus Cowans( Epps), a prison parolee and recovering alcoholic is welcomed back into the brood headed by his father Lloyd (Glynn Turman) and mother Della (Vanessa Bell Calloway), his brothers Anthony (Curtiss Cook), Terry (Vaughn W. Hebron) and Drew (Will Catlett), and their sisters Tisha (Keisha Epps) and Loren (Ashley Williams). When a home invasion goes bad - with the murders of a couple and a teen son Kyle (Conor Sherry) left in a coma, Detective Joe McDonald (Michael Ealy), going by the minimal clues left behind, thinks one of the Cowans may be responsible…
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