Best movie ever!

Admirable film.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Really one of the very few movies that made me angry and couldnot complete it. i didnot like Saddam or his regime but this is so much exaggerating and i hope that American ppl are smarter to believe this non-sensible events.

The Devil's Double tells the story of an Iraqi youth named Latif who is forced into taking a job as the "double" for the son of Iraq's now infamous former- dictator, Saddam Hussein. While the attention to detail and historical accuracy is not on the same level as HBO's iconic adaptation of Hussein's story in the miniseries House of Saddam, the Devil's Double does offer a different perspective. While HBO's show focused on the Hussein family and Saddam himself, the Devil's Double depicts the barbaric Hussein family from the perspective of an outsider in the form of Latif. Dominic Cooper takes on a dual-role in this film, playing both Latif and the primary antagonist Uday Hussein, the malicious eldest son of Saddam. The movie opens with authentic graphic footage from the Iran–Iraq War, a conflict started by the Hussein regime that lasted nearly a decade and cost Iraq over $500 billion. Although the war rages on, it is immediately made clear that the main character, Latif, is being escorted away from the front. Instead, Latif is brought to an opulent palace in two gleaming black Mercedes cars. It's hard not to pick up on the dark contrast between the reality of the war front that was just depicted and the palace that Latif is brought to. At this point it should be mentioned that most people with a keen knowledge of the Saddam Hussein regime agree that, despite all of the cruel and inhumane things that Saddam Hussein did during his brutal regime, his son Uday Hussein would have been far worse for Iraq. The Devil's Double offers a harrowing portrait of life under the thumb of a brutal dictator's regime. Uday Hussein, the son of Iraq's president Saddam Hussein offers Latif a job due to his striking resemblance to Uday. Hussein requests that Latif becomes his, "fedai", or body double to serve as a decoy in case of an assassination attempt. Latif naively refuses initially, but after being imprisoned and tortured, agrees, reluctantly. He eventually comes to understand the extent of the danger that is present to both him and his family. The job offer from Uday was never something that could have been refused. Latif learns just how cruel Uday Hussein really is from having to serve as Hussein's "fedai". Uday forces Latif to accompany him everywhere, while he cruelly tortures, kidnaps, humiliates, and assaults the people of Iraq for his own amusement. Nobody is immune to the devil's assault. Uday regularly kidnaps schoolgirls on their way home from primary school in exotic sports cars to rape them. At one point, he forces his dinner guests to undress in front of him for his birthday. Uday tortures men, women, and children for perceived slights and humiliations known only to him. Nobody can stop Uday who is the son of the most powerful man in the country. Latif is caught in the crosswind. The most haunting scene in the entire film happens when Uday Hussein sees a pretty bride wearing her wedding dress at her own wedding. Aroused, Hussein cruelly asks his bodyguard to bring the bride to his hotel room so he can rape her on her wedding day. The guards comply. After the harrowing event, the film depicts the bride bloodied and in a state of shock. She then leaves the hotel room and jumps off of the roof to commit suicide. Witnessing such senseless barbarity on a regular basis naturally takes its toll on Latif's sanity. At one point in the film, Latif slits his own wrists just to see if Uday will even let him die of his own volition. Latif is immediately given medical treatment and is basically denied the ability to even end his own life. It's hard to tell when the Devil's Double is being gratuitous and when it is being accurate. But the true history of Saddam Hussein's brutal and repressive regime is far from clean or sanitary. So perhaps the film's depiction of sexual violence and blood do justice to the gruesome subject matter. Some might feel that the blood and sexual violence should have been cut out from the film altogether to make it more palatable. In the movie's adaptation, the groom of the bride who committed suicide joins forces with Latif and together the two scorned individuals get revenge by making an assassination attempt on Uday Hussein's life. Unfortunately, in real life, the groom with the abducted bride committed suicide as well by shooting himself in the head at his own wedding. Uday Hussein cruelly continued to torment Iraq until he was eventually killed by United States forces in 2003. His corpse was shown on national television and his death was very much celebrated across Iraq. Those who can't handle this film's toned down version of the historical events cannot handle the real history.

I had high expectations of this one, but they were dashed when I noticed that the director was Lee Tamahori, the man responsible for creating the cheesiest Bond film ever made (DIE ANOTHER DAY). THE DEVIL'S DOUBLE does look promising on paper, telling an unusual story in an unusual setting, but unfortunately the execution is sub-par and the whole thing turns out to be a waste of time.The story features lead actor Dominic Cooper playing two separate roles. One is as the egomaniac son of Saddam Hussein, the other his bodyguard and (conveniently) exact double. Unfortunately, neither character is very interesting; the bodyguard is a dull, wooden type of character, and Saddam's son is a psycho. Characterisation is limited to those two points and we never learn more from beginning to end.The script is very poor, failing to bring gravitas or depth to the storyline. We learn that Uday (Saddam's son) is a psycho at the outset, and that his double despises him for his actions, but that whole premise is dragged out for an hour and a half with repetitive sequences that are mere variations on what's come previously. Sure, there are moments of greatness - usually the flashes of unflinching violence, both sexual and physical - but the viewer never feels embroiled in the tale, and the ending is a particular letdown. Sad to say but THE DEVIL'S DOUBLE is a poor man's SCARFACE and ultimately a shallow, one-dimensional experience.

I recorded this off the TV not expecting much and got round to watching it yesterday. Wow! I was not expecting this! This is certainly not for the faint-hearted mind. Dominic Cooper is mesmerising in his roles here and I don't think I was the only one that could not believe, on the film ending, that he actually played both roles...brilliant performance. And when I actually found out that most of this is based on the truth or certainly near to it that made it even better for me.Its fascinating because although the dialogue is all English, it doesn't feel like a US/UK film at all. I think they did the right thing in doing the dialogue all in English overall even though doing it in the native language/dialect would have been interesting as well.If you like The Godfather, Scarface, gangster films but want to see a bit of reality as well give this film a go. I have just ordered the Blu-ray so I can watch and hear it in HD which Im sure will make it even better. Its not one of my favourite films but its a solid 8/10 no problem and that makes it a buy for me.