The Double Reviews

Director/Writer Michael Brandt does a nice job of building tension throughout the entire movie and gives old man Gere some action man chops.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

I may have seen some things coming in the story, but it was nonetheless interesting to watch things play out.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

It is a flawed film, but one that accomplishes what it sets out to do: entertain, if in fits and starts, for an hour and a half.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The type of professionally assembled star programmer a big studio would once release wide to a decent return in an off-peak season.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The title "The Double" doesn't refer to baseball, but it could. The thriller may not hit it out of the park, but it's a solid double.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Ineptly realized in everything but its chase scenes (which are, I'll admit, pretty good).

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A sleek, taut spy-thriller with echoes of Day of the Jackal...One of those dark, even nihilistic-seeming thrillers where every turn seems to be a turn for the worse.

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A throwback genre flick, complete with a throwback lead, that gives away its double cross early yet maintains enough mystery to keep viewers moderately intrigued.

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'The Double' is a good return "to the classic spy thriller" of another time and another world that itself is making a comeback.

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Let's hope Richard Gere never has to make another one this cheesy after his comeback in "Arbitrage."

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Gere phones in a cool, detached performance. Grace is sub-par as the whiz kid agent. And, the story, despite numerous plot twists, fails to entertain. Grade: C.

Full Review | Original Score: C

You have to admire Brandt and Haas for taking such a gamble, but unfortunately it doesn't quite pay off.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

the ineffectiveness of the final half hour ultimately ensures that The Double ends on a disappointingly anticlimactic note.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

With nothing resembling a character worth rooting for, the fact that the plot of The Double just gets sillier and sillier makes it one of the most annoying films of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.0/5.0

Brandt's thriller doesn't have much of a connection to the present, let alone reality.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Questionable motives and unbelievable decisions are relatively small potatoes compared with the Sputnik-size plotholes.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

The feature labors over details as though the C.I.A. is going to use this as a training tool for new recruits, taking a very silly, logic-leaping effort with the utmost seriousness.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

When the story starts to fall apart you're left wondering if the film was worth all the money and effort that went into making it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It's simply not very good.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5