The Devil's Advocate did well at the box office, received good reviews, and proved that Reeves could play a grown - up with a career, although many critics felt that his poor performance detracted from
an otherwise enjoyable movie.
Enjoyable for a good 15 minutes or so, mostly due to the scene - stealing powers of the adorable, much - coveted kitty whose name gives the
movie its title, this is
otherwise a stale, repetitive effort whose one - joke premise — two suburban buddies forced to pass themselves off as gangsters in a grimy underworld where they clearly don't belong — never achieves comic liftoff, much less the richly subversive dimensions typical of Key and Peele's best work.