Thursday, October 03, 2013
Just deserts or is it desserts?
Controversy rages over the spelling of deserts/desserts. I will take either.
In any case, there is a lot of evil in today's movie. And the villain get his in the end. Actually somewhere else where all the nasty action has been.
Enough evil in this film to go around for a long time for me. But I wanted to see it anyway.
Dominic Cooper is superb in the double role of Uday Hussein, the bad son of Saddam and as the man who is coerced into being Uday's double.
This is not a great movie. I am not sure if it is even a good one. The material, so violent, transcends the usual values around it as a film.
That is not to say that it is so violent it is repulsive.
Somehow through Cooper's magic they are able to convey the evil with a considerable amount of suspense and just the right amount of distance.
We know that Latif, the double, will survive the experience because he is telling the story. He wrote the book from which the film is made.
We also know that Uday is going to get his and, at least, in this film, there is a considerable payback for this criminally insane creature.
I would not want to see this film again but I am glad that I did. Cooper is quite fantastic with or without the feat of performing two people. They look the same but they are worlds apart in every respect.
Bravura. A stunt, more or less, but one that is well worth seeing done so well and also worth the price of swimming in a bit of filth for awhile.
A 3 out of Netflix5.
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