The Devil's Double (2011)
Genre: Drama / Biography
Duration: 109 minuten
Country:
Belgium / Netherlands
Directed by: Lee Tamahori
Stars: Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier and Raad Rawi
IMDb score:
7,0 (65.420)
Releasedate: 11 February 2011
The Devil's Double plot
"The 80's were brilliant, if you were in charge."
Latif Yahia (Dominic Cooper), a lieutenant in the Iraqi army stationed on the Iranian border, bears an extraordinary resemblance to the embodiment of evil, Uday Hussein, Saddam Hussein's feared son. Latif is summoned to Saddam Hussein's inner sanctum, where he is faced with a choice; become the doppelganger of Saddam's son... or die.
Actors and actresses
Latif Yahia / Uday Hussein
Sarrab
Munem
Saddam Hussein / Faoaz
Kamel Hannah
Ali
Yassem Al-Helou
Latif's Father
Azzam
Said
Reviews & comments
Glennekeeeee
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- 304 messages
- 429 votes
As may have been said here, this could have been Oscar material but you soon notice that they don't aspire to this. If you see it as an action thriller, then the film is certainly quite enjoyable, even if the action itself is very minimal.
The luck of this film is Dominic Cooper who plays a wonderful double role. As both Latif and Uday, he plays the part with verve and what is nice is that he gives the roles an identity so separately that not every scene has to make clear who is who first, you just see that right away. Which also brings me to another plus point about this film: visually. Visually, the film is really beautiful, in terms of color use, filters, and camera movements, this film is top notch. Also very nice not to use the simple perspectives for the double role. Quite a bit of work went into this to get the 2 coopers through 1 screen. The supporting roles are not as impressive, as Uday's luxurious 'whore' who has to take care of the Love romance, which, by the way, was poorly developed. And through the visual splendor, the story is often a bit too slow to really captivate, but often Cooper makes up for it. The film has some hard moments for some viewers but all in all it's not too bad and the brutality is too sporadic to really hold the tension. The final is rather careless and quickly handled, which I expected more from, but maybe the reality was no different.
The Devil's Double is an entertaining action thriller with the cinematography as strong points and a wonderful double role for Dominic Cooper that often makes you forget the wooden supporting roles and slightly too empty screenplay
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scorsese
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- 13430 messages
- 11264 votes
Mediocre film in which a man is forced to act as the doppelganger of Saddam Hussein's son. A special true story. Unfortunately, the characters remain rather superficial and the film quickly becomes monotonous. There certainly could have been more to this. Dominic Cooper does a fine job in the double role.
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mrklm
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- 12190 messages
- 10362 votes
Cooper plays a handsome double role in an extremely violent, but rarely exciting thriller about an Iraqi soldier who is forced to play the doppelganger / twin brother of Saddam Hussein's psychotic son Uday in the late 1980s. The premise is fascinating, but Michael Thomas has failed to turn Latif Yahia's autobiographical books into a good story. As a result, the film gets bogged down in a repetition of moves and it takes (too) long before it reaches the inevitable finale, the best moment in the film. Cooper excels and Philip Quast also impresses as Saddam Hussein, but they're left with too superficial a screenplay. .
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