The Double (I) (2011)

A retired CIA operative is paired with a young FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator's murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin.

Director:

Michael Brandt

Writers:

Michael Brandt, Derek Haas

Stars:

Richard Gere, Topher Grace, Martin Sheen

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Richard Gere	...	Paul Shepherdson
Topher Grace	...	Ben Geary
Martin Sheen	...	Tom Highland
Tamer Hassan	...	Bozlovski
Stephen Moyer	...	Brutus
Chris Marquette	...	Oliver
Odette Annable	...	Natalie Geary (as Odette Yustman)
Stana Katic	...	Amber
Yuri Sardarov	...	Leo (as Yuriy Sardarov)
Ivan Fedorov	...	The Scrounger
Ed Kelly	...	Senator Dennis Darden
Jeffrey Pierce	...	Agent Weaver
Lawrence Gilliard Jr.	...	Agent Burton (as Larry Gilliard Jr.)
Mike Kraft	...	FBI Director Roger Bell
Andy Manning	...	EMT (as Andrew 'Sir' Manning)

Storyline

Story kicks off with the mysterious murder of a senator bearing the marks of a Soviet assassin, who was long thought to be dead. To hunt down the killer, a retired CIA operative, who spent his career going toe-to-toe with his Soviet nemesis, is teamed with a young FBI agent.

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Plot Keywords:

cia | assassin | washington d.c. | russian spy | double agent

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Taglines:

Keep your enemies close

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, some disturbing images and language

Details

Official Sites:

Image Entertainment [us] Official site [jp]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 October 2011 (Turkey)

Also Known As:

Misión secreta

Filming Locations:

Santa Clarita, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hyde Park Entertainment, Agent Two, Brandt/Haas Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Datasat

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

When they are in Paris in 1988 the American Embassy in Paris is flying the European Union flag.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Bozlovski: [whispering in Spanish] Better you forget them. You didn't see anything.

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Connections

Edited from The Sum of All Fears (2002)

User Reviews

A Cold War Themed Movie 20 Years After The End Of The Cold War

This is, at times, a very confusing movie. It can be forgiven for that

• because clearly it's intended to be. The opening scenes of the movie

(a group of illegal immigrants apparently attempting to cross into the US from Mexico) are a bit disorienting. They don't seem to fit with what you expect the movie to be about (I even questioned briefly to myself whether the video store had accidentally packed the wrong movie into the case!) Once it gets going, though, it's compelling.

Basically, the story revolves around the search for the person who assassinated a US Senator, with the prime suspect being a Soviet agent who everyone believed had been killed years before. So - yes - it was an interesting way of bringing back a sort of Cold War theme to a movie made more than 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. There are two experts on this Russian agent known as Cassius: CIA agent Shepherdson (Richard Gere) and FBI agent Geary (Topher Grace). They get put together as a team to try to piece the puzzle together. The first twist to the story comes about a half hour through the movie, which leaves you wondering a bit what the point of the movie is, but there's a later twist that was (to me, at least) unexpected. It's pretty well done. Gere and Grace worked pretty well together. I haven't really seen much of Topher Grace since he was the star of "That 70's Show." He's matured a great deal as an actor.

There are some pretty good action scenes in this, but to its credit the movie doesn't go overboard on action. It tends to focus mostly on the relationship between Shepherdson and Geary. It's a pretty decent effort. (7/10)