movie poster for THE DEVIL'S DOUBLE

Flicks ID

16647

Cert

18

Running time

104 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

THE DEVIL'S DOUBLE (2011)

LEE TAMAHORI

Plot

Adapted from Latif Yahia’s ‘apparently’ autobiographical novel, we follow him through the hedonistic and sadistic world of Saddam Hussein’s infamous son Uday in the late eighties just prior to the first Iraqi ‘conflict’. Ladif is chosen as Uday’s double and is soon immersed in the insane and narcissistic world of his unhinged employer. Violent, cheesy and slightly mad ‘The Devil’s Double’ is a surprisingly entertaining, though I hesitate to say good, film.