The Devil All The Time is a novel that I took far too long to get to. It had popped up on a list somewhere, and I had added it to my to be read queue, just wish I would have gotten to it sooner. It’s a Steinbeck novel with big balls. Violence. Horror. Tragedy. So many bad things to the characters in this story, but it was expertly done and never gratuitous. Some of the best character work I’ve read in a long time, and it was not only a great read from an entertainment standpoint, but as a writer, I learned a lot.
Needless to say, I was excited to learn it was being adapted to film. The cast was insane. The trailer was insane. I was ready for this thing. I drank in every image, every word, its story keeping me glued to the screen for its entire duration of two hours and eighteen minutes. But did it succeed both in doing justice to the source material and a film?
Check out my review to find out.