Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Mar 6, 2023 3/4

Though it’s not a very insightful or illuminating experience, it’s a visceral one that can’t help but hold your attention.

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Jason Best Movie Talk Dec 5, 2020

Cooper is terrific in his two roles, but he's much better than the film itself, which is as flashy and violent as the decadent world it depicts - and just as shallow.

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Felicia Feaster Charleston City Paper Jan 17, 2020

[A] mercilessly long-winded film with little on its mind beyond cataloging Uday's depravity.

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Stephen Saito Moveable Fest Jan 9, 2019

A truly satisfying resolution is slightly out of reach when there's less room to play fast and loose with accuracy, yet there's no denying that this was one historical footnote well worth exploiting.

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Daniel Green CineVue Nov 15, 2018 2/5

A brave experiment that unfortunately fails within the first few minutes due to a combination of miscasting and all out crassness.

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Kaleem Aftab The List Nov 6, 2018 4/5

This rambunctious romp is not for the faint-hearted but it is packed with over-the-top lines to quote for weeks after.

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Christopher Tookey Daily Mail (UK) Jan 4, 2018 2/5

This is an over-the-top gangster flick that starts with the volume turned up to 11 and stays that way. It's never boring, but revels in the bad behaviour it pretends to condemn, and is too much on one note to be much good.

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Will Leitch Deadspin Jun 22, 2013 C

Cooper is great, in a great part. But for an actor, not for his audience.

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Matt Joseph We Got This Covered Feb 28, 2013 9/10

The Devil's Double is a fantastic film that features a central performance so compelling, you'd be foolish to look away even for a second.

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Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com Jan 26, 2012 2/4

Never develops into anything beyond a concept.

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Nov 23, 2011 2/4

...a sporadically intriguing yet disastrously undercooked thriller.

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Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI) Oct 21, 2011 3/4

Some of the cruelty in the film is hard to stomach, but frighteningly believable.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 B+

I'm not sure what it all adds up to, but The Devil's Double puts its hooks in you and keeps them there.

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Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Sep 7, 2011 4/5

Probably only a three-and-a-half star movie, but it's pushed into four-star territory thanks to the performances of Dominic Cooper.

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Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader Sep 1, 2011

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.

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Richard Knight Knight at the Movies Aug 25, 2011

"The film is lurid and exploitative (and how!), which enthralls for a while while Cooper's dual performance as the crazed Uday and smoldering Latif is certainly laudable."

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Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review Aug 18, 2011 3/5

Cooper's dual performance is near-brilliant.

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MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Aug 18, 2011

If you've been waiting to see the excesses and bone-deep corruption of Baghdad under Saddam Hussein done up gold-plated, Jersey Shore-tacky style, wait no more.

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James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk Aug 17, 2011 2.5/4

at times Tamahori's visuals feel a bit too polished and refined, which gives the film a glossy veneer that is at odds with the atrocities on-screen

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Philip French Observer (UK) Aug 15, 2011

While the film is fairly entertaining, it has nothing new to say about Iraq and little that is original about doppelgangers.

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