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THE DOUBLE Send This Review to a Friend
This pathetic effort to create suspense with a spy story is unremittingly boring despite having Richard Gere as its star. “The Double,” directed by Michael Brandt, who wrote the screenplay with Derek Haas, has Gere as Paul Shepherdson, a retired C.I.A. agent. When a U.S. Senator is slain, Shepherdson is asked to help solve a mystery and a problem.
Is it possible that a Soviet double agent called Cassius is still alive and did the murder? It has been assumed that Cassius is long dead. But a young, eager F.B.I. man (Topher Grace) has studied Cassius and thinks he is still operative.
The film maneuvers through twists and turns and obligatory violent action with a plot that seems hopelessly muddled. Rather than create suspense, it makes one lose patience. Is Cassius alive or dead, and if alive, who is he? No matter. The film itself is a corpse. An Image Entertainment release.
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