Devil's Due
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: January 17, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
7
Negative:
9
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
20
Total FilmAli CatterallJan 21, 2014
The Devil may have all the best tunes, but this really is the worst sort of cinematic karaoke. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJan 20, 2014
We're more than 45 years out from Roman Polanski's director-controlled masterpiece in gestating terror, and yet no gimmick in Devil's Due — no point-of-view shock cut or shaky-cam "realism" — is as dread-inducing as tracking the grim revelations on Mia Farrow's face. Read full review
25
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanJan 20, 2014
It’s more silly than scary. Read full review
30
Village VoiceChuck WilsonJan 17, 2014
Devlin's script tips its hand so early on that Devil's Due lumbers toward a woefully flat, predictable ending, and the unwelcome promise of something truly demonic — sequels. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJan 17, 2014
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett direct with competence but a dispiriting lack of originality. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJan 17, 2014
As with most found footage films, there’s a lot of tediousness, with the early proceedings resembling the sort of home movies from which anyone not directly involved would normally flee. Read full review
30
VarietyAndrew BarkerJan 17, 2014
The film expends plenty of effort crafting a few memorable freakout setpieces and nailing down the logistics of its found-footage camera placement, yet it offers precious little in the way of real scares or engaging characters, and even less in original ideas. Read full review
38
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJan 17, 2014
The dialogue is dull, the performances perfunctory and while it is novel to leave out “the explainer” character — that slim hope that a priest, an expert on the Occult or whoever, can give the characters answers — common to this genre, leaving that character out robs the film of pathos and urgency. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiJan 17, 2014
Devil's Due is one of those films that borrows so many key elements from other and often better movies that genre buffs could amuse themselves by composing lists of all the titles that it blatantly rips off throughout. Read full review
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