Devils Knot - review

Based on a true story, this movie follows the aftermath following the disappearance of 3 young boys when they fail to return home from a bike ride.

As the neighbourhood unite in an attempt to find the boys, the police unfortunately find their bodies sparking a murder hunt for the culprit and no sooner than they start to investigate, do the officers have suspects in custody.

Suspected of dabbling in the occult and satanic worship the 3 teenagers are banged to rights when a young witness comes forward and one of the suspects confesses their parts in the boy’s deaths. But while the families of the victims await the trials in the hope of conviction, private detective Ray Lax (Colin Firth) isn’t quite as convinced of their guilt and joins the defence in order to try and prove their innocence.

Starring Reese Witherspoon as the mother of one of the victims, I thought this movie would be more intense and gritty, but although I watched it from beginning to end and enjoyed it as much as you can enjoy a movie based on real life murder, I felt the ending didn’t do it justice.

With information on screen informing viewers of what happened in real life after the movie ended, it felt as if the movie could have included more of this, but instead built up the story before letting it go without much thought.

With loose ends still to tie up in real life, the movie technically can never have a proper end as the reality is without an ending, but I still feel something was missing.