The Devil All The Time Movie Review: Tom Holland's Netflix Film Has A New Hero, A Luger Pistol
The Devil All The Time follows a young man, Arvin Russell, who learns to fight for right at a young age and strives to keep his loved ones safe in a town full of corruption and sinister people.
Star
Cast:
Robert
Pattinson,
Tom
Holland,
Bill
Skarsgård,
Sebastian
Stan
Director:
Antonio
Campos
Available
On:
Netflix
Language:
English
Duration:
138
minutes
Story:
The
Devil
All
The
Time
follows
a
young
man,
Arvin
Russell,
who
learns
to
fight
to
defend
himself
at
a
young
age
and
strives
to
keep
his
loved
ones
safe
in
a
town
full
of
corrupted
and
sinister
people.
Review:
Based
on
Donald
Ray
Pollock's
2011
novel
of
the
same
name,
The
Devil
All
The
Time
is
a
cinematic
audiobook
that
takes
you
on
a
long
ride
filled
with
bad
people
and
the
ones
who
deserve
to
die.
The
film
follows
a
group
of
cynical
Faithmeisters,
serial
killers,
delusional
Bible
belters,
traumatized
war
veterans,
their
affected
offspring,
and
corrupt
cops.
Every
bit
of
the
film
makes
you
question
these
characters,
their
sanity
and
the
film's
plot
but
the
narrator,
present
throughout
the
run
time,
makes
it
easier
to
see
the
direction
in
which
Antonio
Campos
intended
to
take
the
film.
With
many
characters
to
follow
and
their
stories
to
be
told,
it
is
pretty
easy
to
lose
the
purpose
of
the
film
but
with
author
Donald
Ray
Pollock's
fine
toned
narration
the
audience
is
kept
grounded.
Bill
Skarsgård
As
Willard
Russell
The
kids
in
the
film,
suffer
through
their
parent's
shortcomings
and
fall
into
a
similar
cycle
of
helplessness.
The
common
ground
for
all
the
characters
is
the
praise
for
the
Lord
in
different
ways
and
by
the
end,
it
leaves
you
with
the
belief
that
maybe
all
of
it
was
the
Lord's
plan
to
end
all
evil
with
the
start
of
an
evil.
Robert
Pattinson
As
Reverend
Preston
Teagardin
Full
of
toxic
masculinity,
and
the
senselessness
of
violence,
the
story
follows
a
group
of
people
across
two
cities
spanning
between
1957-1965.
We
meet
Willard
Russel
(Bill
Skarsgård)
who
is
taken
by
the
violence
at
war
and
ends
up
influencing
the
same
behaviour
on
his
nine-year-old
kid,
Arvin
Russel
(Michael
Banks
Repeto).
He
makes
sure
to
teach
his
son,
"you
have
to
pick
your
time
to
win
a
fight" and
he
continues
to
do
so
years
later
(Tom
Holland),
when
it
is
his
time
to
fight
in
a
town
full
of
corrupted
and
sinister
people.
Tom
Holland
As
Arvin
Russell
The
Devil
All
The
Time
has
a
starry
cast
including
some
of
the
biggest
names
today
like
Tom
Holland,
Bill
Skarsgård,
Riley
Keough,
Jason
Clarke,
Sebastian
Stan,
Haley
Bennett,
Eliza
Scanlen,
Mia
Wasikowska,
and
Robert
Pattinson.
All
the
characters
have
very
little
time
to
develop
their
stories
on
screen
but
the
talented
cast
does
its
best
to
bring
a
deeper
meaning
into
their
portrayal.
It
is
hard
to
imagine
Robert
as
a
Southern
Reverend
with
a
dubbed
voice,
but
it's
hard
to
see
Tom
lose
his
shaky
southern
accent
in
the
first
five
minutes
of
his
appearance.
Sebastian
Stan
As
Sheriff
Lee
Bodecker
However,
it
doesn't
affect
the
film.
Instead,
it's
the haphazard
storytelling
and
jumping
between
timelines
to
create
a
potboiler
thriller,
which
we
do
not
get.
The
film
turns
out
to
be
lost
in
itself,
trying
to
convince
their
viewers
there
is
a
reason
for
everything.
It
is
rather
naive
towards
its
own
violence
but
takes
the
consequences too
seriously.
Overall,
The
Devil
All
The
Time
is
not
boring
at
best
but
it
could
have
turned
out
to
be
a
bigger
deal
with
more
finesse.