“What if they did it?” “What if they didn’t?” Oh man, now that’s deep. A new trailer for Devil’s Knot, which Image Entertainment ponied up some cash to purchase and distribute for some reason, has arrived and it pretty much sums up the entire movie, not that there is much to sum up.
If you know the story of the West Memphis Three then you probably know more than the whole of Devil’s Knot. Directed by Atom Egoyan with a screenplay by Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson, the film stars Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon and tells the story of three children that were murdered in Arkansas and the three boys charged with the crime.
As I noted in last September, this is the “Cliff’s Notes version of the events that lead up to the conviction of Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. and Jason Baldwin rather than the 18 years that followed, which are tidily addressed in a postscript just before the credits roll. Half courtroom drama, half melodrama, entirely worthless…”
Devil’s Knot will have a limited release on May 9, watch the trailer below and read my full review here.
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