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Sorry backatcha.  You're right, this site is about trashing trash, but I wholeheartedly disagree with your trashing, as do many others.  I'm guessing you showed up hoping for Dog Day Afternoon Part 2 and wound up with something a whole lot darker in a completely different way.  De gustibus non disputandum - there's no arguing taste.

But taste is a small excuse to equate Captivity with Before the Devil Knows You're Dead just because you're disappointed.

That may be it.  I actually like Phillip Seymour Hoffman.  He's one of the few newer actors who actually acts, and for me, he does it so well.

And you're right about the characters in Devil.  There's nothing to like about any of them, except maybe the mother, and she gets killed off before you have a chance to know her.  Usually, I hate movies like that, yet although there is part of me that wants to hate that movie, Lumet presented it in a way that I actually admire how the whole thing unfolded.  I didn't have to like any of the characters. 

Not thinking about this until now, I wonder if the beauty isn't in watching the disaster of consequences?  Andy should have known better than to trust Hank.  Gina should have left Andy rather than have an affair with Hank.  Charles should have shown Andy how much he thought of him.  Andy should have accepted his father anyway and not let Charles get to him.  Hank should not have been such a wimpy whiner.  And, of course, Andy should not have gotten into hard drugs.  But they didn't, and I find, if I may use the word, a "beauty" in how all their lives crashed and burned in the wake of all these "wouldas, shouldas and couldas."