The Worst Film Ever

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Probably the worst film I've seen in over a decade. Completely pointless it being madeIts a cold war thriller brought up to date, clumsily constructed around a double twist.It is appallingly written - the plot makes little sense and has plot hole after plot hole. Characters make correct conclussions from almost no evidence and seem to stumble from one leap of faith to another. Sometimes new storylines just pop into existence with no, or almost no, origin. Dialogue is cliche after cliche, lifted from cold war thrillers made when the cold war was still on 30 years ago. The storyline is confused and muddiedIt has no redeeming features - the writing is poor, the directing is poor, the acting is poorOn a personal level, I found the pronunciation of 'Cash-us' really annoying. Is it an Americanism? I think the rest of the world says 'Kass-eus'

I was expecting 'The Double' to be intriguing, exciting and action packed. Instead it was dull, predictable and instantly forgettable. There's nothing to keep you interested, the film just plods along from one scene to the next, until eventually we get some action, but by that point you've completely zoned out of the plot and movie.The most frustrating thing about 'The Double' is that the big plot twist is revealed way too early - I don't understand why they didn't at least give the audience the opportunity to think for themselves. After the big twist is revealed, the movie becomes predictable and boring. There's the usual car chase to keep it remotely interesting, but it's all very artificial and not at all compelling.'The Double' disappoints on so many levels, it's difficult to come up with a positive. A bland and instantly forgettable movie.

In the intro, a group of illegals crosses the border. Soon the border patrol arrives, most flee, but some start shooting and killing, and end up getting into the BP car. In the back are the real border patrol agents.Next we see a political debate on TV. One guy argues we should get tougher on Russia. Wow, not much has changed in 5 years. The other guy, a senator argues against the war-mongering neocon. But this senator also has business interests in Russia so the FBI is spying on him. When he leaves his room at night his throat is cut by a stranger, all this while the FBI is watching on monitors. When they get to the scene, the CIA is there for some reason and takes control. Even the CIA director shows up.Some guy arrives home to find the CIA director there who tells him about the crime. Turns out the guy, Paul, was a former CIA agent in charge of finding "Cassius" who was a Russian agent/international killer who was never caught. The CIA wants Paul's help now that it looks like Cassius has returned. All of Cassius victims had their throats slashed with wire. Paul reluctantly agrees to meet the joint CIA-FBI (!?) taskforce. There he meets his young FBI counterpart--another expert on Cassius who wrote his MA thesis on Cassius. Paul thinks it's a copycat, the kid thinks it the real deal. Of course Paul mocks the kid's youth and inexperience. And after leaving the meeting angrily of course Paul returns to help. Can there ever be an enthusiastic hero in a movie instead of always the reluctant hero? Ben, the kid, and Paul visit some Russian convict who was part of the Cassius gang. They offer him a radio as a gift if he collaborates. He does, but ends up swallowing the batteries, which sends him to the hospital. There he takes his chance and escapes. But someone is waiting for him...and kills him. It's Cassius himself, whose surprise identity is revealed to us surprisingly early.The CIA in the meantime makes the connection between the illegals and the senator's death. Among the illegals were several Russians, one of them is a known entity to them. Even though Paul has been retired for years, all his contacts are intact, and he starts getting info to find the Russian. Ben invites Paul over for dinner where Paul does his best to tell Ben's lovely wife to convince her husband to drop this case, that Cassius is too dangerous, that if he gets to close Cassius would not hesitate to kill them all.Ben with the aide of a friend take a second look at all his Cassius files and discovers his probable identity. It now becomes a race whether they will be able to grab Cassius before he finds them. But there's another surprise revelation once they confront the Russian.The Double has a rich and complex story and, sure, it's not a bulletproof story but one with some plot holes here and there. Nevertheless, it's an accomplished spy thriller that gets us involved and interested in the outcome. Although the revelation of Cassius' identity early on is really odd. They could have based the entire movie on that moment had they made it the climax. So after the revelation and with that curiosity satisfied, the viewer is left wondering what the movie will center on for the rest of the time. It becomes a manhunt of course which made the revelation at the end pretty neat and unexpected. In a way it wasn't necessary for the emotional arc but it was necessary to fill some of those plot holes and make it all work and it also makes the move stand out among others in the genre. The ending too was pretty original.

one illogical twist after another. especially the end : Ben Geary (Topher Grace) has been waiting for 10 years to kill Cassius, so why doesn't he kill him when he's right in front of him and has a gun in his hand to do it? And does he think the Russians will allow him (sleeper / Russian agent) to remain with his American family? no way! And why doesn't he tell Tom Highland (Martin Sheen) the truth? That Gere = Cassius and Bozlovski = also an assassin, just a different one. And that Bozlovski (Tamer Hassan) killed Gere's wife and son in 1988. Apparently, it is easy to lie to the head of CIA as well as FBI. You even get a job proposal! By the way, why would a CIA agent have more field-work than an FBI agent? Usually, it is the other way around. Another illogicality. And another thing : why would an assassin (Richard Gere) live out the rest of his life in the same town/vicinity, where the most CIA and FBI agents are around (headquarters)? Maybe I see more crazy issues than there are, blurred by seeing so many crazy issues.