I cannot think of a reason anyone would enjoy The Devil All the Time. It has a great ensemble cast, and it's fun to see Tom Holland in a darker role, and Pattison is always good, but the script is so terrible that there's nothing the actors can do if their characters and motivations are utterly uninteresting. Maybe people like that it's a dark movie for the sake of being dark? It certainly doesn't shy away from violence, which I don't mind at all, but the fact that it's violent doesn't make the movie good in and of itself. There are so many problems with this film, but I don't want to spend more time thinking about this dreadful film than I have to, so I'll be brief. The biggest problem: the film is extremely dull and tedious. The characters are even worse than one-dimensional caricatures; they actually have no dimensions, no reason to engage with them or care about their journey. The violence serves no purpose, the characters don't have to wrestle with anything psychologically, and deaths have no consequence to anything that happens - they happen and then we move along as though they never happened. Campos clearly wanted to make this a story about Christianity gone awry, but when there is no hint at any character psychology and it's obvious the characters feel no inkling of moral misgiving about killing people, that message is worthless. The voiceover narration is terrible, adding nothing to the film and heavy handedly stating points that a competent filmmaker would show subtly in character actions. The nonlinear storytelling adds nothing at all to the story, as the nonlinear bits are edited together when they are completely unrelated, so when we come back to a scene we saw earlier there is no new information to consider, it was merely a pointless diversion. The dialogue is laughable, with very few conversations that could plausibly have taken place between real, normal people. I will say that the church scene between Holland and Pattinson was fun, though again it ended in the same silly, meaningless violence the movie is filled with. I also like the idea of Holland standing up for his sister, though the sharp dichotomy between the confidence of the boys by the school and then their fear and lack of fight later is a bit ridiculous. There are plenty of technical issues and frustrations, but more than anything this film is ruined by a terrible script devoid of thematic depth or any direction at all, which makes the film an absolute chore. I was so eager for it to end because I simply could not care less what happened to anyone in the film. I regret watching this movie as much as any I've watched all year and would encourage anyone who hasn't seen it to stay away.