Film - The Double. Richard Gere/Topher Grace
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I mentioned this one back in January in the 'Bad Films you have seen lately' thread. This was my comment back then;
The Double - Richard Gere, Topher Grace and Martin Sheen.
A US Senator is murdered with the method of the kill suggesting a long thought dead Cold War-era Russian assassin. Richard Gere is the ex CIA agent dragged out ofretirement a giant plot hole to team up with FBI upstart Topher Grace in order to hunt down the killer.
Allow me to save you the bother;
A senator gets murdered. Sheen drags Gere out of his (20year) retirement insisting it's the Russian assassin that is repsonsible. Gere insists said Russian has been dead 20years (can ya see it yet? Can ya?). Sheen convinces Gere to hunt the Russian down with Topher Grace.(remember this). They go to prison to visit a convict who worked with the Russian and his KGB Murder Squad. Convict escapes. Gere finds him and kills him because he's the Russian killer and was a double agent. LOLZ! SUPRISE!!
By now you're only 20minutes into the film and scratching your head wondering why the f
k Gere would agree to 'come out of retirement' to hunt down himself. This literally makes no sense.
The film then bumbles along for an hour before Topher Grace finally realises that Gere is the Russian he's hunting. How does he come to this conclusion? Because every photograph of every crime scene from the Russian Assassins hits has Gere loitering in the background!!. Apparently Grace has been studying this killer for years and he's only just picked up on the same dude appearing in every single damned photo.
But wait, there's more.
For some utterly unknown reason near the end it turns out that Topher Grace is actually a Russian double agent who has been 'activated' and whose mission is to kill the Russian / Gere then return to Moscow.SUPRISE PT 2 MOFO'S! Oh, he also killed the Senator from the start. Don't ask me why, because there's really no explanation for any of the above. Or why they want him dead after all this time.
But wait! It doesn't end there, it turns out the other Russians they were hunting who were part of Gere's KGB Murder squad actually killed Gere's wife and son twenty years earlier so we get a bit of revenge from Gere as he takes on TAMAR fkING HASSAN! before kindly dying.
Topher Grace, having clearly not thought what happened to Gere or his family, decides to stay in the US as an FBI agent because he doesn't want to leave his wife or child.
The End. 100mins you'd never get back
The Double - Richard Gere, Topher Grace and Martin Sheen.
A US Senator is murdered with the method of the kill suggesting a long thought dead Cold War-era Russian assassin. Richard Gere is the ex CIA agent dragged out of
Allow me to save you the bother;
A senator gets murdered. Sheen drags Gere out of his (20year) retirement insisting it's the Russian assassin that is repsonsible. Gere insists said Russian has been dead 20years (can ya see it yet? Can ya?). Sheen convinces Gere to hunt the Russian down with Topher Grace.(remember this). They go to prison to visit a convict who worked with the Russian and his KGB Murder Squad. Convict escapes. Gere finds him and kills him because he's the Russian killer and was a double agent. LOLZ! SUPRISE!!
By now you're only 20minutes into the film and scratching your head wondering why the f
k Gere would agree to 'come out of retirement' to hunt down himself. This literally makes no sense.The film then bumbles along for an hour before Topher Grace finally realises that Gere is the Russian he's hunting. How does he come to this conclusion? Because every photograph of every crime scene from the Russian Assassins hits has Gere loitering in the background!!. Apparently Grace has been studying this killer for years and he's only just picked up on the same dude appearing in every single damned photo.
But wait, there's more.
For some utterly unknown reason near the end it turns out that Topher Grace is actually a Russian double agent who has been 'activated' and whose mission is to kill the Russian / Gere then return to Moscow.SUPRISE PT 2 MOFO'S! Oh, he also killed the Senator from the start. Don't ask me why, because there's really no explanation for any of the above. Or why they want him dead after all this time.
But wait! It doesn't end there, it turns out the other Russians they were hunting who were part of Gere's KGB Murder squad actually killed Gere's wife and son twenty years earlier so we get a bit of revenge from Gere as he takes on TAMAR f
kING HASSAN! before kindly dying. Topher Grace, having clearly not thought what happened to Gere or his family, decides to stay in the US as an FBI agent because he doesn't want to leave his wife or child.
The End. 100mins you'd never get back
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