All the Devil's Men

Going to include some spoilers!!!! Over all I really enjoyed the film. I think one of the few things Ive seen in a spy film is the opening kill. Colins uses modern spy tech to lock the doors and sets a timer to unlock them long enough for him to do his job and get away. "All The Devils Men" is a spy vs spy film with a bad guy buying a nuke. I really did enjoy it and I think most people would. If you have the time it worth checking out!! At the moment the overall stars is 5/10 and I don't really agree with that. I fell a 6/10 or 7/10 is fair for the overall film.

The only decent actor (Fichtner) gets killed early on and then it's just one firefight after another which after a while becomes tiresome because the characters are all cardboard. Writing is trite, acting is bad, especially Hoeks who plays the CIA officer who changes sides so much she's a merry go round. She's just horrible. Edits are reasonably tight so it moves along and so long as you aren't looking for plot or character it's ok.

I'm one of a few women who like action movies wth a semi-realistic plot that has nothing to do with zombies or space fantasies, that can keep my attention. This is such a movie. Good men fighting evil men is always great theme, but even better is when a movie adds gray areas with ambiguous morality, as does this underrated gem. There is a lot of violence, but it is not gratuitous. Milo Gibson is perfect in the lead role as a former Navy Seal with PTSD, a mix of half crazy vigilante and righteous seeker of justice. I also appreciated the minimal, low-keyed music ( or absence of music) which made the action scenes more realistic. There were a few plotholes, and there was some odd dialogue that should have been edited out, but overall I found this movie very good.

Nothing too interesting in this low budget British thriller. It's one of those JOHN WICK derived ones where there are loads of assassins and hit squads roaming around and trying to take down our heroes, but the money just isn't there to make things look good. Most of the time they seem to encounter the baddies at night in old warehouses or industrial estates. The plot is barely existent and just involves the good guys trying to get the bad guys. Milo Gibson is the nominal hero but has none of his dad's charisma and feels thuggish for the most part. The action direction is all right but a film needs a lot more than that to be decent.

Wow, I picked up this Blu-ray at Walmart not really expecting much. The premise was enough to make me buy it though and man am I glad I did! The lead actor Milo Gibson (yes the son of the Lethal Weapon himself Mel Gibson) is the lead here, and he shines in the role for the most part. He seemed to do most of the stunts himself and it was filmed very well! I particularly liked the overhead shot that was used during the boat sequence. The other actors do a fine job as well. Sylvia Hoeks is downright beautiful and does an excellent job, especially towards the end. William Fichtner may be on the cover with a gun but his role is much smaller then you would think.. His role is still very pivotal though and I'm glad he's still doing great work here and there as a character actor. Gbenga Akinnabe is a great sidekick as well and his chemistry with Milo works very well. I don't know if it's possible but a prequel with both of them during Their SEAL days would be worth watching if done right. Now, onto the bread and butter and the reason we watch these kinds of flicks.. The action of course!! Matthew Hope does a great job here and you can tell he's fan of action sequences himself. I wouldn't be surprised to hear he grew up watching a lot of Seagal and Van Damme flicks as the gun and knife fights here are filmed very tight, with brutality and blood sprays. Definitely looking forward to see what Matthew and Milo cook up next!

In the bonus track of the DVD of "All the Devil's Men," writer-director Matthew Hope discussed his goal in exposing how the CIA began as an intelligence gathering organization, but evolved into "an assassination agency." At least Lyndon Johnson agreed with Hope when he famously remarked that the CIA was "running a Murder, Inc." operation. As it turns out, the film was more of a standard action film than a political exposé, and Hope's directorial skills are better than his screenwriting. A weakness of the film was in the character of Leigh, who is the CIA operative directing the lead character Collins and his fellow "bounty hunters," who are contract killers with an endless supply of assignments. Leigh was never entirely credible as the rogue agent motivated primarily by personal reasons to avenge the death of her father, who was beheaded by the film's villain in South Waziristan in northwest Pakistan. According to the bonus segment, the film had pretensions of showing how "empires are destroyed from within." But the viewer is confronted by such a convoluted plot and so many double-crosses that it was difficult to contemplate the big picture of an intelligence agency run amok and "working in the shadows." There were also too many clichés in the scripting, including such lines as, "Are we protecting the homeland, or are we just making more enemies?" Milo Gibson is good in the leading role of the beleaguered veteran contract agent. Gibson is the son of actor Mel Gibson, and, although Milo is much stockier than his dad, the facial resemblance is uncanny. Gibson turned in a credible performance. In the bonus track, Hope described how the film was intended as a throwback to such thrillers as "The French Connection." But that film had superb plotting, well-rounded characters, and the gritty realism of international crime, features that were missing in "All the Devil's Men."

It's as good as Netflix's Triple Frontier ($60M budget). I'd guess this cost $15M. Good dark and surprisingly realistic action-assassin-spy flick, vs typical Hollywood crap. Learned a few things I can use the next time I'm being hunted by killers, too.