{"id":91357,"date":"2020-10-17T10:10:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T07:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-devil-has-a-name-review\/"},"modified":"2020-10-17T10:10:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T07:10:56","slug":"watch-the-devil-has-a-name-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-devil-has-a-name-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;The Devil Has a Name&#8217; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26245b634f1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a26245b634f1\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-devil-has-a-name-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Devil_Has_a_Name_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Devil Has a Name&#8217; Review&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-devil-has-a-name-review\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Devil_Has_a_Name_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The Devil Has a Name&#8217; Review&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Devil_Has_a_Name_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Devil Has a Name&#8217; Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Devil_Has_a_Name_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The Devil Has a Name&#8217; Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        In \u201cBattlestar Galactica\u201d star and sometime director Edward James Olmos\u2019 \u201cThe Devil Has a Name,\u201d corporate America is poisoning the little guy, again. Call me cynical, but that will hardly come as a surprise to most audiences, who\u2019ve been watching entities with deep pockets shirk public safety for quick profits for the better part of their lives, thanks in no small part to Hollywood\u2019s efforts to amplify the whistleblower. Over the years, we\u2019ve seen nuclear facilities fail to contain radiation (\u201cSilkwood\u201d), fracking interests conspire to deceive a small town (\u201cPromised Land\u201d) and Dupont dump toxic chemicals into a West Virginia water supply (\u201cDark Water\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Such <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> are nearly always earnest to the point of self-righteous, an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach best exemplified by \u201cErin Brockovich\u201d \u2014 which is the case \u201cDevil\u201d most closely resembles, since both true(ish) stories seek to expose the impact of carcinogens seeping from unlined wastewater ponds into the surrounding area. Cross that with a different Julia Roberts movie, \u201cCharlie Wilson\u2019s War,\u201d with its rowdy, semi-satiric retelling of stranger-than-fiction political corruption, and you\u2019ve got a sense of the gonzo, stick-it-the-Man tone of Olmos\u2019 carpet-bombing attack on oil-industry malfeasance.<\/p>\n<p>The devil in each of these movies has a name. \u201cWhat, \u2018capitalism\u2019?\u201d you ask. Well, sure, though screenwriter Rob McEveety (who\u2019s delivered a doozy of a script for his first produced feature) zeroes in on a more specific term, which surfaces during the movie\u2019s courtroom portion in one of those showboaty \u201cMatlock\u201d moments when an activist lawyer (Martin Sheen) asks the court if they\u2019ve ever heard the words \u201cnet present value\u201d \u2014 the idea that if corporations can make more money now than they\u2019d be on the hook for later if and when they\u2019re busted for bad behavior, they have every incentive to continue.<\/p>\n<p>The only way to trump such logic, the movie argues, is to make the greedy suckers pay \u2014 hit \u2019em with a bill so heavy that it cripples the polluters and incentivizes others to shape up, lest they face financial ruin in the future. I\u2019m not convinced this strategy will work (it\u2019s hard to imagine a greater future cost than the looming threat of global warming, for example, and yet corporations keep right on chasing near-term profits with no care for the consequences), but it makes for good theater: Put a little guy (like David Strathairn\u2019s half-loco almond farmer) up against Big Oil \u2014 in this case, a fictional company called Shore Oil and Gas \u2014 and watch the sparks fly.<\/p>\n<p>McEveety overwrites the heck out of his script, cramming it full of fancy language and over-the-top caricatures, like Shore Oil regional director Gigi Cutler (a wicked Kate Bosworth), who saunters into a board room, slams back a few whiskey shots and explains, in a cockeyed Texas drawl, \u201cThere are 53 different types of nuts in the world. He was one of them.\u201d She\u2019s referring to Fred Stern, whose almond crop has been compromised by radioactive microparticles \u2014 shown oozing from the waste pits into his shower water like plaque in a computer-generated Listerine commercial \u2014 but a line like that tells you we\u2019ve left planet earth and are operating in the carnival-like realm of the imagination.<\/p>\n<p>The timeline\u2019s all jumbled, but eventually, it becomes clear that Gigi\u2019s job was to buy Fred\u2019s land out from under him (she offers $50,000 through a nitwit inter<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>ry played by Haley Joel Osment). But that offer backfires, piquing his suspicions that Shore Oil has something to hide. They might even be responsible for his wife\u2019s death to cancer a few years earlier. So Frank turns around and sues the company or roughly $2 billion, hiring an ever-so-slightly fictionalized version of consumer crusader Ralph Nader (Sheen) to represent him.<\/p>\n<p>Olmos casts himself as the undocumented foreman of Fred\u2019s farm (one of the good guys), and enlists six-and-a-half-foot Pablo Schreiber as Shore Oil\u2019s stop-at-nothing fixer (pure evil), then sets these characters against one another in a mess of sneaky deals, double-crosses and substance-abuse binges so confused the whole movie starts to feel like a tornado touched down in the editing room.<\/p>\n<p>Olmos\u2019 concern ostensibly goes out to the good people of California\u2019s Central Valley, whose water supply has been thus compromised \u2014 although a similar movie could also be made about how terribly wasteful growing almonds in the desert has been to natural resources. In the end, the characters are all so transparently self-interested that it doesn\u2019t feel as if any outcome will actually fix the problem. What should have been a galvanizing David-versus-Goliath story pales in comparison to Amazon series \u201cGoliath,\u201d which is comparably colorful but far more coherent as it hits so many of the same beats. By the time Gigi takes the stand, this loony, Bible-quoting movie has spiraled off into some parallel reality, leaving audiences unclear on far too much, including what the devil its title was trying to say.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-movies-tv-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch Movies &#038; TV Series <\/a><\/span>category<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/film\/reviews\/the-devil-has-a-name-review-1234808320\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Devil Has a Name&#8217; Review&#8221; &#8220;&#8216;The Devil Has a Name&#8217; Review&#8221; In \u201cBattlestar Galactica\u201d star and sometime director Edward James Olmos\u2019 \u201cThe Devil Has a Name,\u201d corporate America is poisoning the little guy, again. 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