All The Devils Are Here Review: This Frustratingly Morose Crime Thriller Is Stuck in Hell

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"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here," screams Ferdinand in The Tempest. His ship has been deliberately wrecked by the magic of Prospero, an embittered ex-King hellbent on revenge. So, too, says Ronnie Blake (Franklin's Eddie Marsan), a career thief whose final job for the off-screen mob boss Mr. Reynolds has gone predictably, horribly, wrong. Ronnie is hardly a Shakespearean character, but perhaps All the Devils Are Here is the needlessly morose and leaden version of Shakespeare's late-career masterpiece, abandoning a slew of thinly-drawn characters on the purgatorial island of a crumbling cottage in the English countryside.

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