All the Devil's Men

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All the Devil's Men
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Directed byMatthew Hope
Written byMatthew Hope
Produced byAmory Leader
Hannah Leader
Starring Milo Gibson
Sylvia Hoeks
Gbenga Akinnagbe
William Fichtner
CinematographyRobin Whenary
Edited byEmma Gaffney
Music byAmory Leader
Simon Williams
Distributed by Saban Films
Release date
  • 7 December 2018 (2018-12-07)(United States)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesEnglish
Russian [1]
Box office$65,829 [2]

All the Devil's Men is a 2018 British action thriller film written and directed by Matthew Hope and starring Milo Gibson, Sylvia Hoeks, Gbenga Akinnagbe, and William Fichtner.

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Plot

Jack Collins is a war junkie and former Navy SEAL turned bounty hunter who tracks down terrorists as part of the CIA's outsourcing to private companies. Battling personal demons, the powers think that he is becoming a liability so his CIA handler Leigh offers him one last chance to keep fighting, sending him to London for a job. There, he finds himself part of a three-man team tasked with hunting down a disavowed CIA Operative called McKnight before he procures a WMD from Russian gangsters and disappears. Together, Collins, Brennan and Samuelson find themselves locked in urban tactical combat with a former colleague, Deighton, and his private army, hired by McKnight as protection. Both sides fight smart and as casualties and betrayal mounts on both sides, Collins refuses to be defeated as he battles his way to an explosive climax.

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Release

The film was released theatrically in the United States on 7 December 2018. [3] It was released on Blu-Ray, DVD and digital platforms in the U.S. on 5 February 2019. [4]

Reception

The film has a 23% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. [5] Barbara Shulgasser-Parker of Common Sense Media awarded the film two stars out of five. [6]

Dennis Harvey of Variety gave the film a negative review and wrote, "There’s a lot of double- and triple-crossing, culminating in a fadeout that seems to go one plot twist over the line of narrative coherency." [1]

Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a negative review and wrote, "The problem is that the pic is such an utterly routine, formulaic and forgettable example of its genre that watching it becomes an exercise in endurance." [7]

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References

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