Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

cinemajesty Film Review: "The Devil's Double" (2011)Here a completely by his leading actor Dominic Cooper, in best form, carrying the picture about the Saddam Hussein's son life style and the story from his inches alike body double the character Latif Yahia directed by Lee Tamahori, granted with a fairly-paced script by Michael Thomas based on real-life memories, brought together to an appealing thrilling psycho-drama, which gets ultimately enriched by the truthfully transcending relationship to the character of Sarrab, Uday Hussein's first lady, portrayed by erotic-striking actress Ludivine Sagnier, who with her laissez-faire acting style and immensely build up chemistry to actor Dominic Cooper, making the "The Devil's Double" a secretly to encounter piece of motion picture entertainment with minor suspense dissatisfaction, when it comes to the story's conclusion, worth the watch nevertheless.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Rameshwar IN Reviewed May 2012It neither has the subtlety nor the attention to detail one might expect of a biopic and runs along as a thrill ride concocted from the mind of some over-the-top fiction writer where the focus is more on the sleazy and gory details than the emotional side of its characters. But the last word is that it entertains. Uday Saddam Hussein (Dominic Cooper) needs no introduction as his reputation is well documented. What this movie intends to show is the perspective of his Fiday (body double), Latif Yahia (also played by Dominic Cooper). In the monarchical Iraq where eccentric Uday has no bounds to his sadistic ways, Latif a soldier of the Republican Guard is identified and offered a position as his body double without a choice. Uday and his team introduces Latif to an ultra luxurious lifestyle with quite a few tight strings attached. Latif is forbidden to contact his family and soon grows tired of Uday's antics and atrocities. All along, Sarrab (Ludivine Sagnier) a mistress Uday is quite fond of gets close to Latif and both dreams of life free from Uday's clutches. One day, Latif thinks enough is enough and does the unthinkable and the consequences are supposed to be history. The script definitely would have taken the liberty of manipulating quite a few facts for dramatic or commercial or fill-in-the-blank purposes and anyone watching the movie for historical accuracy may get disappointed. Where it succeeds is the flamboyance with which Dominic Cooper portrays the eccentric Uday Hussein and the same measured held back performance while playing Latif. Also it induces quite a few comic touches and add in a lot of nudity, vulgarity and gore the elements that are closely associated with Uday and they are the same elements that makes a product commercially viable too. No major incident reported in the history is handled with the gravity of its impact instead takes the spectacle route. Certain facts are contrived and some emotions are just laughable for a biopic, but hey who knows what was cooking in Uday's mind, he might have reacted in the exact same way. Uday was shown mostly as an immature, mindless nut with a lot of comic histrionics and unpredictable temper. There is a pattern here as I have seen a BBC biography on Uday which is handled in the exact same way as this movie, a contrast with the rest of their work. Having said all that, what finally mattered was its ability to grab my attention by bribing me with guilty fun. Do not watch it for serious cinema, there is a lighter side to the worst of elements.

alindsay-al I got this film for my birthday and I have now seen this film and it is a good solid interesting gangster film. This film sees Saddam Hussein's son who needs a double forcing his double to live his outrageous crazy lifestyle. Now Dominic Cooper plays both young Hussein and latif the man forced to be his double and this performance shows just how good an actor Cooper is. First of all he thrives in the craziness that Hussein is and he makes the character into a crazy some time cartooney character that disturbs you every time you see him on screen. Meanwhile latif is a character who you end up caring about and feel sorry for him as he is put into uncomfortable positions that nobody would want to ever be put in. This film is at its best when it focuses on these two characters and nobody else matters in this film with the film thriving when the conflict happens between the two. The story again is at its best when the conflict is high between the two and focuses on the dynamic between the two characters and how it works. The story does get a point off because it goes off the rails towards the end and focuses on things that aren't important like a predictable love triangle. The script has some dramatic and crazy dialogue but sometimes it goes too far with the craziness and you don't care about what is being said by the characters. The style of the gangster lifestyle is pretty good but sometimes there are just forced violence or nudity and sometimes I think in films like this it is just forced and doesn't feel like it fits for the film. Overall this film is good and enjoyable it doesn't hit the political ideas but it is still a good solid movie to watch if you like gangster films.

rajatdahiyax Summoned from the front line to Saddam Hussein's palace, Iraqi army lieutenant Latif Yahia (Dominic Cooper) is thrust into the highest echelons of the "royal family" when he's ordered to become the 'fiday' - or body double - to Saddam's son, the notorious "Black Prince" Uday Hussein (also Dominic Cooper), a reckless, sadistic party-boy with a rabid hunger for sex and brutality. With his and his family's lives at stake, Latif must surrender his former self forever as he learns to walk, talk and act like Uday. But nothing could have prepared him for the horror of the Black Prince's psychotic, drug-addled life of fast cars, easy women and impulsive violence.