Like a magician performing one too many tricks, "The Double" overplays its deception while spinning a mildly diverting yarn.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2016

With nothing resembling a character worth rooting for, the fact that the plot of The Double just gets sillier and sillier makes it one of the most annoying films of the year.

| Original Score: 1.0/5.0 | Nov 4, 2011

Questionable motives and unbelievable decisions are relatively small potatoes compared with the Sputnik-size plotholes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 4, 2011

Like a stripper who gets naked too quickly, the lukewarm spy thriller "The Double" lays out its big plot twist early in the movie - and soon finds, shivering, that it has nowhere else to go.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 3, 2011

It's simply not very good.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2011

Ineptly realized in everything but its chase scenes (which are, I'll admit, pretty good).

| Nov 3, 2011

Here is a movie constructed from basic parts at the Used Screenplay Store, with a character plugged in whenever one is required.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 3, 2011

The story makes no sense and leads nowhere but into a creaky buddy movie that can't round itself off without a last-minute hero falling on his sword to save another.

| Oct 28, 2011

Not only does The Double's outdated theme feel out of leftfield, it's unexplained and without reason.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Oct 28, 2011

What can you say about a dull spy thriller that gives away its big "secret'' both in its trailer and the film's title?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 28, 2011

If these characters ever had a motivation for their extreme behavior, it disappeared in rewrites.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 28, 2011

A tedious, impenetrable cat-and-mouse game involving Russian double and triple agents.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 27, 2011

There's a sanded-off, textbook creativity to "The Double" that forsakes rich cloak-and-dagger textures for generic twists, hackneyed flashbacks and telegraphed moments of peril.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 27, 2011

The twist in The Double slack mystery-thriller is revealed with a shrug about a third of the way in. After that, it's all about Gere looking grim, and Grace looking stricken as he learns what we already know.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 27, 2011

Despite similarities, this film is several rungs down the ladder from Salt and lacks the charisma of a lead like Angelina Jolie to pull you past nagging silliness.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 27, 2011

Roughly 99 percent of the time, if a movie that seems like it should be a big deal appears almost out of the blue, it's because it's lousy. The Double doesn't exactly buck that trend.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 27, 2011

Staged with the trite, predictable rhythms of garden-variety espionage. Gere acts circles around it as long as he can.

| Oct 26, 2011

Like a Training Day for spy thrillers, The Double provocatively pairs Gere and Grace as a gray-green odd couple, only to unravel as the double-crossed absurdities pile up and the duo start trading bad Russian accents in a private Mexican standoff.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 26, 2011

Rarely has Mr. Gere walked through any movie with so little energy and so much indifference.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 26, 2011

Whether it's the clumsy use of flashbacks, the air of manufactured portentousness, or the completely unbelievable casting of Grace in a role that requires a certain authority utterly lacking in the actor's performance, almost every move seems a misstep.

| Oct 25, 2011