"It's like when people see Jesus in a pancake, you know?"
After an inventively-presented title sequence, Devil plays like an old 1970s Amicus-style potboiler, glossed up for the 21st Century and with a Saw-like twist thrown in for today's generation of horror fans. With a story from the increasingly bankrupt imagination of M Night Shyamalan, the join-the-dots-with-a-blunt-pencil plot jolts along unsubtly to its underwhelmingly signposted conclusion. The acting on display will not trouble the Academy Award voters, but there is a nicely-played central performance by Chris Messina as the troubled detective. The director contrasts the confines of the stuck lift with more expansive scenarios (such as the lift shaft and the lobby) effectively on screen, but overall there is little that excites or surprises here.
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