I've never seen a new movie take such hits. Better the Devil You Know was the very first of Augment Image's feature length movies. The movie played in select theaters across America last year, but most people missed it due to a new Harry Potter film and a Transformers movie. This was kind of a huge mistake on Augment Image's part, considering Better the Devil You Know isn't really a summer blockbuster. I don't know what they were thinking. Had this been released in the fall, I feel it would have done a lot better. On the flip side, the movie seemed to be doing really well in Illinois when I saw it. I actually caught site of the movie poster in the lobby. The Bench movie played before this. Better the Devil You Know started out slow. I think most people have trouble with the whole format because it is not your standard "goal oriented" protagonist type movie. You spend the entire movie simply getting to know the main characters. It's like your basically hanging out with them and finding things out along with them. The biggest problem is: people who want to be surprised and taken on the journey with the characters will love this movie like most positive reviews already said. People who want a familiar, paint by numbers approach that would've made this movie boring will be uncomfortable and turn it off. This is character driven, not really action driven. The whole movie is a build up to the end. The end was really cool.
It's a movie that is really about the characters and not so much the action. It shouldn't have been released as a summer blockbuster. I think that hurt it and it might be why some people are out of sorts with it. It gets kind of serious at the end, but still stays fun. Better the Devil You Know is far too ambitious to be a run-of- the-mill independent film. It's also way too low budget to be a Hollywood film. It's just cool and doesn't take itself too seriously, which is what the filmmakers are about.
It's a movie that is really about the characters and not so much the action. It shouldn't have been released as a summer blockbuster. I think that hurt it and it might be why some people are out of sorts with it. It gets kind of serious at the end, but still stays fun. Better the Devil You Know is far too ambitious to be a run-of- the-mill independent film. It's also way too low budget to be a Hollywood film. It's just cool and doesn't take itself too seriously, which is what the filmmakers are about.
