The Devil’s Double

51:29

 

I wanted to see this one in the theater, so I bumped it up on Net Flix as soon as I remembered it was out.  I’m forgetful.  But man, there’s no story.  None, Uday is a egomaniacal rapist/murderer, and his double is a really really nice guy stuck in a bad situation.  Too nice, I was rolling my eyes, going wow, the main character, who wrote the book this thing is based on, is just so nice.  Think of that.  

 

There you have it.  That’s the movie, at least the first 51:29 of it. Uday is a crazed punk who needs a good beating, but right now he needs to find a double.  He wants Nice Guy, and beats Nice Guy, then threatens his family, until Nice Guy agrees and gets his make-over.  Then he looks exactly like Uday, and has to go with him everywhere like a little dog in a fancy purse.  He soon shockingly discovers that Uday is always a crazed punk rapist/murderer, and I guess he’s sad about it.  I don’t know, he just sits there.  Then I started fast forwarding.

 

Fast forward recap – Nice Guy has to talk down the father of the fourteen-year-old daughter Uday tried to rape, then died under his roof (not really sure how, they just show her body being dumped outside of the city).  Nice Guy slits his wrists, then is dropped off at home, to a family who thought he was dead.  The concubine is around more and Nice Guy shows up to a night club there’s a scuffle with Uday, and he and the concubine head off into the desert, then they’re in a hotel and he’s pissy, then he’s going to talk to the guy who’s wife committed suicide after Uday raped her on her wedding day.

 

Bam, we’re in the market as Uday is trying to pick up another child, and Nice Guy tries to shoot Uday, but the little girl he’s with screams and messes up his aim, leaving Nice Guy to just shoot Uday in the crotch.  Nice Guy walks of, being chased by one of Uday’s guards, but the guard recognizes him and lets him go.  Then the thing’s over and we get to read the Uday was crippled in a failed assassination attempt, then killed in 2003.

 

This one does have an awesome poster.  Nice job, somebody out there.  I mean it, no sarcasm.  Love the poster.