Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (Cert 18) DVD Review (From Northwich Guardian)

Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (Cert 18) DVD Review

12:22pm Wednesday 16th July 2008 in Leisure By Nicola Davies

BRUTAL, bleak and brilliant – Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead is a tour de force for director Sidney Lumet.

With superb performances from Philip Seymour–Hoffman, Ethan Hawke and Albert Finney, this film tells a morality tale of the fate of a dysfunctional family whose lives go horrifically wrong when the two brothers (Seymour–Hoffman and Hawke) commit a bungled robbery of their parents’ jewellery store.

A tragic thriller with an unexpected twist.