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• Anvilicious: Lawyers should not be Amoral Attorneys.
• Complete Monster: Well, Milton, being Satan. One of his cruelest acts is probably the brutal rape of Kevin's wife.
• Evil Is Cool / Evil Is Sexy: Pacino's Devil is well dressed and suave (in his own creepy way), and seems to get any woman he wants.
• Feed Me: Al Pacino's climactic meltdown is magnificent. The part where he seamlessly starts singing "It Happened In Monterey" in Sinatra's voice somehow ups both the Fan Service and Squick of the scene.
• It Was His Sled: Al Pacino's character is really the Devil? You don't say!
• Les Yay: In the elevator.
• Magnificent Bastard: John Milton.
  • This scene provides an excellent example, as he baits a Spanish-speaking passenger on the subway, potentially leading him to commit murder.
• Narm: The natural result of Al Pacino's hamminess and Reeves' rather stoic acting being both put in the same movie.
  • Narm Charm: A result of the above, the mixture of hilarious and horrifying is actually a draw for some people.
  • That said, both of them tend to ham it up when Pacino gives his twenty minute scene ranting at God. It's pretty awesome.

Kevin: GODDAMNIT, WHAT DID'YA DO TA MAH WIYFE! Milton: Well... On a scale of one to ten, ten being the most depraved act of sexual theater known to man, one being your average Friday night run-through at the Lomax household, I'd say, not to be immodest, Mary Ann and I got it on at about....(cue the creepy yet funny face) eleven.

• Recycled Script: The basic plot is basically The Firm, with Satan.
• Retroactive Recognition: Tony Montana is the Devil, Neo is his son, Mary Embrey is his wife, Lucilla wants to bear Neo's child, Principal Rooney gets stomped to death by a mob of vagrants, Dr. Warner from Special Victims Unit is the wife of one of the demons, Steve Freeling is accused of killing his family and Woody Carmichael was into Santeria. Oh, and Mia's best friend was a special victim herself...
• Unfortunate Implications: Apparently, no lawyer with any integrity would defend a guilty client. The movie doesn't make it quite that clear-cut, but still, for all the flaws in our justice system, there are very good reasons for a presumption of innocence and it doesn't work too well if lawyers just quit in the middle of trials - the law more or less insists that all attorneys be amoral. Kevin admits that "they're gonna disbar me!"; the bar association has no use for "a lawyer with a crisis of conscience". More on the discussion page - this is Truth in Television Fridge Horror.
  • People angst about this too much - Fundamentally, the role of defense attorneys in the US system is to ensure that the (legally presumed innocent) defendant's rights are maintained. Imagine yourself sitting in the defendant's chair. Care to describe a better system?
  • There's also the implication that Voodoo = Satanism.