The Devil’s Double
Go Ahead, Make Me Uday 
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R | 109 min

Uday Hussein grew up rich and infamous, under the tyrannical house of Saddam, which pretty much gave him an unusual license to do as he pleased in Iraq.  And what he pleased to do turned out to be horrific and unspeakable things to his enemies, his fellow countrymen, and even to his friends.  This made him someone not to be messed with, but also a ticking time bomb waiting to explode or to be exploded.  Many people in such a volatile position (like his father) seek out body doubles, for there is safety in numbers.  Such was the unlucky luck of Latif Yahia, a former classmate of Uday’s, who juss so happened to resemble him, and had no real choice but to sign up for the one of the worst gigs around – being his… DOUBLE!

WELCOME to Lee Tamahori‘s The Devil’s Double, a shocking, yet wholeheartedly fascinating and entertaning look at Latif’s life as Uday II. Doubling our pleasure is Dominic Cooper, who not only is carrying a movie for the very first time, but is carrying it twice, as he plays both Uday and Latif (he even looks like Latif, see below)!!!  Cooper beyond pulls off the dual roles, handing in two fantastic performances that are as varied as the men themselves.  Making it all believable is the film tech-mology that lets Coop act out with and against himself in scene after scene.  That tech-mology is basically the third star of the film (apologies to the lovely Ludivine Sagnier).  To hell with body switching, and to heaven with body doubling!!!!

The devil is in the details, and Double‘s got em, but sometimes the lack of time context, and the Hollywoodizing of Latif’s story stand in the way of this becoming a truly excellent flick.  Still, it’s not often you get a Caligula meets Dave meets Scarface in the desert, with more mustaches than one could ever dream of.  Wait, do people dream of endless mustaches????

We Want To Join AA: this AA!!

Amrita Acharia

Verdictgo: Jeepers MOS DEFFFFFF Worth A Peepers

Devil is hell on a screen, currently in limited release

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

Peace The Forks Out

to

Jerome ‘Jerry’ 

‘Stand By He‘

Leiber

1933 – 2011

Nickolas ‘Nick’

‘Have You Driven An‘

Ashford

‘Lately?‘

1942 – 2011

+

pie eater

RR

country priest diarist

Uncle Frank

laast Bataan twirller

Bollywood bright eyes

Greasey Cha Cha

Nixon’s Pilot

the mighty Quinn’s son

voice of the Braves

Hammer Studio nail 

robot armer

Lew’s biznatch

last homosexual concentration camp survivor

NY Cary-er

Loriot

Hot Wheeler

&

Professor Falken!!!!!!!

dude, is there a better NSFW named site betterer than the buttererer

Areola-51??????

probably not!!!

oh, and happy birthday to the girl with the bestestest bob of balls thyme.  WHAT! WHAT!

Colleen Moore!!!

dude, we totally mad dug on Robert Wise‘s Odds Against Tomorrow [trailer], and not juss cause it starred Ed Begley SENIOR or our distant-ish cousin or that Robert Ryan barely cracked a smile in it (duh) or that Harry Belafonte totally kicked the wicked xylophone jams, but truly madly deeply cause it (re)introduced us to one ye crazy SLASH beautiful ye olde movie ye hottie

Gloria Grahame

it was lust at first (re)sight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dude, get us a time machine so we can go to the past and become her slave.  hell, we’d even volunteer to be her toilet!!!

oh, and we woulda never had seen this had it not been for FF’s glorious RR thingie majingie.  RR totally totally rocks it, even if he keeps churning out the racism in flick after flick

LOL!!!!!!!!!