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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Lee Tamahori's film, freely adapted from Yahia's life story, captures the temptations of a life without rules and without limits, and the horrors of the trap a life lived at the whim of a psychopath truly is. Read more
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Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Bring Wet-Naps to "The Devil's Double.'' It's coated and fried in the same batter KFC uses for Extra Crispy chicken. The movie might be greasier, actually. Read more
Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies: Lost somewhere in The Devil's Double is a good-to-great film, but it's sabotaged by a weak script and direction that fails to fully realize its challenging subject matter Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: The movie is provocative but rarely thought-provoking, and it stops short of any startling psychological or political insight. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: This is a movie too enamored of its own tawdriness, turning every violent act and violation into gratuitously salacious grindhouse set pieces. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Those who admired Mr. Cooper's work as Peter Sarsgaard's dashing friend and business partner in "An Education" -- I called it "a supporting performance with star quality" -- could not have imagined his achievement here. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: Though Cooper plays look-a-like characters, it is always clear which of the two men is on screen at any moment, including those moments when Yahia is impersonating Uday. That says a lot about the inner wellspring of great acting. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Dominic Cooper is electrifying yet stiff in The Devil's Double; he's simultaneously the film's biggest asset and its greatest flaw. Read more
Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic: The hero of "The Devil's Double" may get upstaged by the villain, but that's not exactly bad news for star Dominic Cooper, since he plays both parts. Read more
David Germain, Associated Press: Cooper has done such a good job bringing Uday to life, it's a bit of a trial simply sitting in the audience and watching. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Equally as offensive as the movie's smorgasbord of smut and violence is the lingering whiff of colonial-era orientalism, a Western predilection for regarding Eastern cultures as innately idle, lascivious, irrational, and thus ripe for intervention. Read more
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William Goss, Film.com: The elements of tyranny, treachery and temptation are all there in one true-life package, but in the hands of director Lee Tamahori, The Devil's Double plays more like a melodrama than a docudrama. Read more
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Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: Excellent lead performance tops a vivid but one-dimensional look at the double for Saddam's satanic son. Read more
Bruce Diones, New Yorker: The movie is too busy seeming audacious to add up to anything affecting, but its excesses are fascinating to watch. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Dominic Cooper gives a riveting dual performance in "The Devil's Double," but the movie is a relentless one-note drama that loses its momentum halfway through. Read more
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Kyle Smith, New York Post: Really it's just a trashy bid to be the "Scarface" of Mesopotamia. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: It's a great double stretch for an actor and Mr. Cooper plays both the smoldering Latif and the bombastic Uday with combustible energy. Read more
David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer: Tamahori tries to top off this already long Arab immorality tale with gratuitous swirls of romance and heroism. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The story inspires much excess, and Tamahori rises to the occasion. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: This is a breakthrough star performance from a terrific actor, Dominic Cooper, getting a chance to let it rip. Just don't expect a docudrama. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: [It] does pick a solid lead actor in Dominic Cooper, whose impressive performance does a lot to distract from the story problems and strange tone shifts. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It is a ghastly, riveting, dazzling piece of work. Read more
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: Although The Devil's Double lacks political insight into the times it portrays, it does fashion riveting entertainment from a truly horrifying real-life story. Read more
Cath Clarke, Time Out: Even more tasteless than its main character's gold 'n' marble palace. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: If the devil needs a place to roam on Earth, he'll find plenty of room in a land where war and violence never ceases. Read more
Peter Debruge, Variety: A rocket-powered thriller rife with scenery chewing and fast-and-loose revisionism that could, by dint of sheer sensationalism, break the Iraq movie curse and rack up some serious B.O. around the world. Read more
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: You leave Lee Tamahori's film thoroughly convinced that Uday Hussein was a monster. In all likelihood, you entered the movie with the same certainty. This raises the question: What was the point, exactly? Read more
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Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The bodies pile up, but they don't amount to anything. Read more