“The newest attorney at the world's most powerful law firm has never lost a case. But he's about to lose his soul.”
Kevin Lomax is a rising defense lawyer from Florida who accepts an offer from a powerful New York law firm. The move gives him bigger cases and a faster climb, but it also pulls him into a world where success comes with a disturbing cost. As his professional life intensifies, the pressure around him begins to feel increasingly dangerous and personal. The film follows that descent as ambition opens the door to something far darker than a legal career.
Taylor Hackford directs this 1997 thriller, and the story centers on Kevin, played by Keanu Reeves, as he tries to keep control of his work and his life inside the firm. Al Pacino appears as the commanding boss who draws Kevin deeper into the firm’s orbit, while Charlize Theron plays his wife, whose presence grounds the story in domestic strain. The cast also includes Jeffrey Jones and Judith Ivey in supporting roles that help shape the film’s uneasy legal world. Their characters move through a setting where polished success and private dread sit side by side.
Set largely in Manhattan, the film turns the city into a place of temptation, pressure and moral drift. Its tone is sleek but ominous, with courtroom ambition giving way to unease, obsession and spiritual menace. The result is a dark legal drama with horror elements that keeps its focus on conscience, corruption and the price of wanting more.
Taylor Hackford directs this 1997 thriller, and the story centers on Kevin, played by Keanu Reeves, as he tries to keep control of his work and his life inside the firm. Al Pacino appears as the commanding boss who draws Kevin deeper into the firm’s orbit, while Charlize Theron plays his wife, whose presence grounds the story in domestic strain. The cast also includes Jeffrey Jones and Judith Ivey in supporting roles that help shape the film’s uneasy legal world. Their characters move through a setting where polished success and private dread sit side by side.
Set largely in Manhattan, the film turns the city into a place of temptation, pressure and moral drift. Its tone is sleek but ominous, with courtroom ambition giving way to unease, obsession and spiritual menace. The result is a dark legal drama with horror elements that keeps its focus on conscience, corruption and the price of wanting more.
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7.5 / 10