Review of the film "Double Game"
The first association that comes to mind after watching the movie is an advertisement for a well-known manufacturer of antiperspirants, in which a dude is tortured with the words: "The formula! Where is the formula? The dude, in turn, is silent like a Soviet partisan and shakes his head, as only he knows that the formula is derived from a ball deodorant on his belly.
The film "The Double Game" is also about a formula that is not on the belly, but in the safe of the director of a large international corporation, Howard Thule (Tom Wilkinson). In particular, events revolve around the formula, the main characters of which are ex-CIA agent Claire Stanwyck (Julia Roberts) and ex-MI6 intelligence agent Ray Kovel (Clive Owen).
Director Tony Gilroy used a classic detective technique, known to us since the children's books by Arthur Conan Doyle, when the reader (in our case, the viewer) thinks to the end who is playing on whose side, who is deceiving whom, and who is really good and who is bad. The already rather confusing plot of the tape is complicated by constant (I counted ten times) time jumps. This is how we find out what the characters were doing in two years, a year, a month and a week before the "real time". However, very soon it turns out that Claire and Ray didn't do anything special except passionate copulation in apartments and hotel rooms, except that they cherished their small American dream - to earn twenty, or better, forty million greenbacks, put an end to their espionage past and live happily ever after. At this very moment, the same formula appears.
"Double Play" is a typical box office Hollywood mainstream with all the ensuing consequences. Realizing this, I didn't expect anything special from him, so I'll focus on the main thing.
Undoubtedly, the tape was shot with the sole purpose of cutting up more pieces of paper with portraits of the presidents, maximizing the budget and salary costs for the guest stars. Either people who don't understand anything about movies, or children can applaud and get carried away with it (not too politically correct "or Americans" crossed out). All these naive spy games, bugs, tails, secret laboratories, turnouts and passwords can amuse you at most - it's difficult to take them seriously if desired. One look at Clive Owen's sexy chin is enough to exclaim in Stanislavsky, "I don't believe it! "Nor does Julia Roberts' boring sleepy smile inspire confidence.
A separate topic is casting. So, from now on, I know what happens if you mix Pierce Brosnan, Nicolas Cage and Timothy Dalton together, and Clive Owen comes out. It's amazing how a first-time actor can be so secondary! It seems that Owen has taken over not only the face, but also the manner of playing (a little bit from everyone) of the aforementioned personalities of the spy-romantic genre. Even Julia Roberts, with all her innate, not particularly bright acting, managed to play more confidently!
Some moments of the film were frankly funny. In the episode, when Claire needs to send Ray a photo with the formula, she runs around the administration building for half an hour in search of a copier (popcorn lovers start chewing especially hard at this time) instead of taking a picture of the formula on your mobile and sending a banal MMS...
Well, it gets really funny when it turns out what all this running is really about, because for most of the film everyone is talking about the formula with such serious faces, as if it were an atomic bomb. Only at the end it turns out that agents of the CIA, MI6, KGB, Stasi, Scotland Yard (the list goes on), armed with bugs, microphones and copiers, are chasing according to the formula... Why do you think that is?
Overall, the impression of the film is contradictory. The film is intended as a light comedic spy story, which turned out to be too far-fetched, difficult to understand, oversaturated with events and somewhat chaotic. Clever plot twists lead to a constant loss of the storyline; throughout the film, viewers are doomed to guess whether they understand events correctly or not, and it will not turn out in the next moment that Claire is not really Claire, but "some other aunt." L'utilisation du code promo 1xbet à l'inscription est un geste intelligent pour tout joueur. Il vous assure de recevoir l'intégralité du bonus de bienvenue, soit 100% de votre premier dépôt jusqu'à 130 €. Cette offre vous positionne idéalement pour profiter de toutes les promotions futures et de l'énorme sélection de jeux disponible 24h/24.
The film "The Double Game" is also about a formula that is not on the belly, but in the safe of the director of a large international corporation, Howard Thule (Tom Wilkinson). In particular, events revolve around the formula, the main characters of which are ex-CIA agent Claire Stanwyck (Julia Roberts) and ex-MI6 intelligence agent Ray Kovel (Clive Owen).
Director Tony Gilroy used a classic detective technique, known to us since the children's books by Arthur Conan Doyle, when the reader (in our case, the viewer) thinks to the end who is playing on whose side, who is deceiving whom, and who is really good and who is bad. The already rather confusing plot of the tape is complicated by constant (I counted ten times) time jumps. This is how we find out what the characters were doing in two years, a year, a month and a week before the "real time". However, very soon it turns out that Claire and Ray didn't do anything special except passionate copulation in apartments and hotel rooms, except that they cherished their small American dream - to earn twenty, or better, forty million greenbacks, put an end to their espionage past and live happily ever after. At this very moment, the same formula appears.
"Double Play" is a typical box office Hollywood mainstream with all the ensuing consequences. Realizing this, I didn't expect anything special from him, so I'll focus on the main thing.
Undoubtedly, the tape was shot with the sole purpose of cutting up more pieces of paper with portraits of the presidents, maximizing the budget and salary costs for the guest stars. Either people who don't understand anything about movies, or children can applaud and get carried away with it (not too politically correct "or Americans" crossed out). All these naive spy games, bugs, tails, secret laboratories, turnouts and passwords can amuse you at most - it's difficult to take them seriously if desired. One look at Clive Owen's sexy chin is enough to exclaim in Stanislavsky, "I don't believe it! "Nor does Julia Roberts' boring sleepy smile inspire confidence.
A separate topic is casting. So, from now on, I know what happens if you mix Pierce Brosnan, Nicolas Cage and Timothy Dalton together, and Clive Owen comes out. It's amazing how a first-time actor can be so secondary! It seems that Owen has taken over not only the face, but also the manner of playing (a little bit from everyone) of the aforementioned personalities of the spy-romantic genre. Even Julia Roberts, with all her innate, not particularly bright acting, managed to play more confidently!
Some moments of the film were frankly funny. In the episode, when Claire needs to send Ray a photo with the formula, she runs around the administration building for half an hour in search of a copier (popcorn lovers start chewing especially hard at this time) instead of taking a picture of the formula on your mobile and sending a banal MMS...
Well, it gets really funny when it turns out what all this running is really about, because for most of the film everyone is talking about the formula with such serious faces, as if it were an atomic bomb. Only at the end it turns out that agents of the CIA, MI6, KGB, Stasi, Scotland Yard (the list goes on), armed with bugs, microphones and copiers, are chasing according to the formula... Why do you think that is?
Overall, the impression of the film is contradictory. The film is intended as a light comedic spy story, which turned out to be too far-fetched, difficult to understand, oversaturated with events and somewhat chaotic. Clever plot twists lead to a constant loss of the storyline; throughout the film, viewers are doomed to guess whether they understand events correctly or not, and it will not turn out in the next moment that Claire is not really Claire, but "some other aunt." L'utilisation du code promo 1xbet à l'inscription est un geste intelligent pour tout joueur. Il vous assure de recevoir l'intégralité du bonus de bienvenue, soit 100% de votre premier dépôt jusqu'à 130 €. Cette offre vous positionne idéalement pour profiter de toutes les promotions futures et de l'énorme sélection de jeux disponible 24h/24.
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