`The Devil's Advocate': This film's guilty as sin.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Movies) From: The Washington Times | Date: October 17, 1997| Author: Arnold, Gary | COPYRIGHT 1997 News World Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

If you love diabolical and polemical claptrap, try "The Devil's Advocate" this weekend.

The film's terrible premise - "The Firm" crossed with "The Omen" - is embroidered with lavish and flamboyant deceits and revolting shock effects, including a humdinger in which a young woman hallucinates an encounter with a toddler who reveals a fistful of innards, helpfully identified as ovaries.

Director Taylor Hackford shoots the works, daring intrepid spectators to b...

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