The interviews with both dominic cooper and the real latif in the extras were absolutely fascinating. When the deceitful actions of a cunning but beautiful woman jessica alba force him to return to the life he left behind, bishops life is once again in danger as he has to complete an impossible list of assassinations of the most dangerous men in the world. Buy foma fomapan r100 black and white transparency film double standard 8mm, 32. Richard gere and martin sheen give good performances, but topher grace tries way to hard. The movie was directed by michael brandt, who cowrote the script with derek haas. With sanjay dutt, riteish deshmukh, arshad warsi, javed jaffrey. Review the double is a terribly derivative cia thriller. Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. Dominic cooper, a british actor who has previously played mostly secondstring leading men, rises to the challenge with an astonishing dual performance, often acting with himself through seamless special effects. Story kicks off with the mysterious murder of a senator bearing the marks of a soviet assassin, who was long thought to be dead. A retired cia operative is paired with a young fbi agent to unravel the mystery of a senators murder, with all signs pointing to a believed executed soviet assassin hellbent on slaying those who betrayed his family, leading to his child dying in a botched assassination. Most of the time were waiting for the other shoe to drop. The double er en amerikansk actionkriminalfilm fra 2011 instrueret af michael brandt. A retired cia operative is paired with a young fbi agent to unravel the mystery of a.
To hunt down the killer, a retired cia operative named paul shepherdson. The arrival of a new coworker, james, serves to upset the balance. The internet adult film database is an online searchable database of over 490,038 adult movies titles and 200,604 porn performers. After watching it, i went to read about it and came across a question from someone on stack exchange movies. The double like a magician performing one too many tricks, the double overplays its deception while spinning a mildly diverting yarn about a vet cia spook and the younger fbi agent working. It stars mammootty, nadia moidu and taapsee pannu in the lead roles, and saiju kurup, anoop chandran, bijukuttan, suraj venjaramoodu, anandaraj, suresh and avinash in other roles. Having been forced to act as a body double for one of saddam husseins sons, latif yahia dominic. Stana katic in the double 2011 richard gere and topher grace in the. A halfhour into the movie, after some coy flashbacks that place. The double gives away a plot twist in the first twenty minutes of the movie. Like a stripper who gets naked too quickly, the lukewarm spy thriller the double lays out its big plot twist early in the movie and soon finds, shivering, that it has nowhere else to go. Richard gere, right, and topher grace in the thriller the double. The double is a 20 british black comedy thriller film written and directed by richard ayoade and starring jesse eisenberg and mia wasikowska. James is both simons exact physical double and his opposite confident, charismatic and good with women.
In the double, a moldy, postcoldwar spy thriller that vainly aspires to be a contemporary patriot games, richard gere, in his enigmatic, sinister mode, portrays paul shepherdson, a. Double take is a 2001 buddy action comedy film starring eddie griffin and orlando jones. Fandango fanalert sign up for a fanalert and be the first to know when tickets and other exclusives are available in your area. Rent the devils double 2011 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. A chilling vision of the house of saddam hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of husseins sadistic son. Rent the double 2011 starring richard gere and topher grace on dvd and bluray. Loosely inspired by fyodor dostoevskys 1846 novella about a shy clerk and his manipulative double, the new film is part absurdist comedy. The film garnered a negative reception from critics. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing the double 2011 near you. This is one of those rare cases, where the trailer spoils the movie, revealing major plot twists in it. We round up the finest of your reponses to last weeks films in this case way out west, double indemnity, tampopo, back to the future and kes published. Perhaps he was truly like that, but he also likely had more facets than we see in this film. Review the double is a terribly derivative cia thriller, but.
Jesse eisenberg and a strong cast bring richard ayoades paranoid dystopia to life, writes mark kermode. A retired cia operative is paired with a young fbi agent to unravel the mystery of a senators murder, with all signs pointing to a believed executed soviet assassin hellbent on slaying those who betrayed his family, leading to his child dying in. In the double, the mysterious murder of a us senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary soviet assassin cassius, forces paul. Its not easy to speak about the plot without pooping the film s surprises but lets just say that everythings different from what it appears and no one is who he seems to be thats where the film s title comes from. With dominic cooper, ludivine sagnier, raad rawi, philip quast. Richard gere is on icycool autopilot in the double. Doubles is a 2011 malayalam action dramedy film directed by debutant sohan seenulal and written by the sachisethu duo. The double is at least half a grown up story, or tried its very best to be. So i started out writing my thoughts about whether or not james was real, as well as an idea i had about what was going on in the movie. When the story starts to fall apart youre left wondering if the film was worth all the money and effort that went into. Review the double is a terribly derivative cia thriller, but richard gere nearly makes it work. Starring stephen moyer, topher grace, richard gere, stana katic. It is about a man driven to breakdown when he is usurped by a doppelganger. When, very late in the film, the screenplay comes up with a third shoe, thats going too far.
If ever there was a film requiring the same actor to play two roles, this is that film. Fortunately, on the double is probably his last great film, a jaunty wwii intriguefilled farce about a timid american soldier kaye tapped by the military to serve as a decoy for a famous british colonel whos targeted for death by the nazis after its. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. It would most likely be impossible to make a remotely useful weapon which worked like the one shown issues such as how the rounds would feed and eject from the guns are just a few of the problems. With richard gere, topher grace, martin sheen, tamer hassan. The double is a perfect popcorn spy caper that will have the viewer guessing until nearly the end of the film. In the double, he plays paul shepherdson, a hardened cia. In the double, the mysterious murder of a us senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary soviet assassin cassius, forces. Handguns double barreled handgun beretta 92fs chudnofsky christoph waltz carries a handgun with twin desert eaglestyle slides and barrels. Two fbi agents are conducting surveillance at a warehouse.
Four slackers decide to avenge their humiliation at the hands of a conman. Based on dostoyevskys novella of the same name it stars jesse eisenberg as a man whose life is interrupted by the arrival of his doppelganger. It takes the double less than half an hour to reveal who the double is. In the double, a moldy, postcoldwar spy thriller that vainly aspires to be a. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. Uday hussein, the eldest son of iraqs saddam hussein, was a vile and deranged man, whose depravities were given full rein with unlimited power and money. The double, a film based on the dostoevsky novella. Alan orange aug 31, 2011 richard gere and topher grace team up to solve the murder of a us senator in michael brandts thriller, in theaters this september. In the double, crima misterioasa a unui senator american purtand marca distinctiva a legendarului asasin sovietic cassius, il for.
The double has plenty of action, switchbacks, and double crossing drama to satisfy the most jaded action fan. It advertises the film on the front of the dvd cover as from the writers of wanted and 2 fast 2 furious. The double is a 2011 american spy film, directed by michael brandt and starring richard gere and topher grace. Thats if youre lucky enough to avoid the movies trailer, which just. The double, is a taut spythriller with echoes of the cold war and the day of the jackal. Dwaj agenci, z cia i fbi jednocza sily, aby rozwiklac tajemnice morderstwa senatora. Fomapan r100 black and white transparency film double. The double is a film directed by michael brandt with richard gere, topher grace, martin sheen, odette yustman, year. After the success of his dramatic turn in the five pennies, danny kaye returned to comedy at the tail end of his film career. Riddled with hollow characters and ludicrous plotting, the double just isnt worth the trouble. In the double, a moldy, postcoldwar spy thriller that vainly aspires to be a contemporary patriot games, richard gere, in his enigmatic, sinister mode, portrays paul. Double take was inspired by the 1957 drama across the bridge, which was in turn based on a short story by graham greene. Nevertheless, at the heart of the film is the relationship between uday and his body double, both played absolutely brilliantly by dominic cooper.
As uday, he is a sadistic, cokesnorting, boozeswilling murderer and rapist. The film was produced by alcove entertainment, with michael caine, graeme cox attercop, tessa ross and nigel. Remember the jackal starring bruce willis and richard gere. A halfhour into the movie, after some coy flashbacks that place shepherdson. Commentary with michael brandt directorwriter and derek haas writer product details. Senator dennis darden ed kelly walks out of the door, he. The film reminded me of movies like salt, no way out, insomnia. The film is based on the novella the double by fyodor dostoyevsky. Kamen rider double character, the protagonist in a japanese television series of the same name. Arthur bishop jason statham returns as the mechanic in the sequel to the 2011 actionthiller.
A retired cia operative is paired with a young fbi agent to unravel the mystery of a senators murder, with all signs pointing to a soviet assassin. Director michael brandt making his directorial debut cut his writing chops on such fastpaced fare as 2 fast 2 furious and the remake of 3. Given that the identity of cassius is revealed in the trailer for the double, it should come as no surprise that the movie also spills that. Although that sort of move might actually pay off for its creativity in better movies, the double doesnt pay off at all. The double is richard ayoades second feature, following submarine. A good film but it could have let the viewer think a bit more. It was a demanding job to be the double of a man so many sincerely wanted to see dead. Double association football, the act of a winning a division and primary cup competition in the same season double baseball, a twobase hit in baseball the double seattle mariners, a specific instance of the above that occurred during the 1995 major league baseball season double cricket, the feat of scoring a thousand firstclass runs and taking a hundred firstclass wickets in. Oct 26, 2011 richard gere is an actor who continually resists the easy or obvious, and yet hes far better at choosing characters than projects. Simon jesse eisenberg is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. The double hour is a tremendously entertaining take on film noir, with all the usual elements of the genre in play crime, death, possibly murder and doomed romance. Rent the double 2011 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Rent the devils double 2011 starring dominic cooper and ludivine sagnier on dvd and bluray. Staring aletta ocean, simony diamond, colette ii and logan.
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