What makes it different from others?

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Latif Yahia or gentle Salhi, a former Iraqi military officer in the category of Special Forces claims taken by Uday Hussein, son of the former Iraqi president like him. Latif Yahia, who belongs to the Kurdish nationalist, he grew up in Baghdad and studied in the same private school that Uday was studying there. Uday was forced in September 1987 to work like him and go instead to dangerous places, doctors performed surgery to the upper jaw in order to conform with the deformed jaw of Uday and so could not be uttered R symbols. After being optimized in many tortured by Uday at Guantanamo Radwaniyah in 1991, he fled to Iraqi Kurdistan in 1991 and then moved to Austria with the help of American intelligence and lived there disguised until the year 1995 and tried the CIA recruited to their advantage but he refused their demands, despite helping him to escape from Iraq, but he refused to be an agent for them and this Harepetth CIA was kidnapped in Vienna, Austria, in 1994 and tortured and imprisoned for more than ten and a half months and fled then to London and there subjected to an assassination attempt by agents of Ahmed Chalabi, who claimed that Iraqi intelligence was behind the incident and all of these events and others by gentle Yahya in his latest book, the role of the customer in the invasion of Iraq, the book banned in Ireland and the United States of America to the Scriptures of serious information affecting the rule Iraq after the occupation and the role of the CIA in the Iraqi opposition, which was located in London, the book named 'tHE BLACK HOLE support has donated the proceeds of the book to a private hospital for children

This story that was necessary to tell was told well. I remember both Gulf wars. I remember the atrocities told about Saddam's son, Uday Hussein. Seeing them re-enacted is another thing.I didn't recognize Dominic Cooper from the only other vehicle in which I saw him, Fleming. He was superb then. He was better here, playing these two roles.He showed evil when he portrayed Uday Hussein.He showed compassion and turmoil when he portrayed the double, Latif Yahia.I await the coming release (2017?) of the sequel, The Devil's Revenge, again based on a book by Latif Yahia, but this time also co-screenwriter.

The Devil's Double. Based on the book written by a soldier who was forced to become Saddam Hussain's son's double in the times of America - Iraq war over Kuwait. The movie gives you good insight into the spoiled son's lavish and insane life and how his double, our hero never finds himself ready to lead his kind of life. An earthy Dominic Cooper plays both parts effortlessly. As Saddam's son Uday, he makes you hate him and as the double Latif he make you care for him with ease. As a bonus, you get to see Saddam Hussain's character playing some key scenes which leaves you wanting for more. Being based on a real story, however movie gets a bit melodramatic at moments but drama and performances keep you engaged. I am going with good 7 out of 10 for The Devil's Double. Movie never tries to go into the deep of war times but makes an engaging watch over playing a devil's double.

I did not expect to enjoy this film. I decided to give it a go as a way of increasing my knowledge of the world and recent past events (or rather decreasing my ignorance), but then got so much more out of it.The basic premise reminded me of The Parent Trap. Not so surprisingly, however, Cooper does a much better job than Lohan of keeping each character distinct. Our warmth towards Latif grows in the same measure as our disgust towards Uday.The only difficulty characterwise is in understanding why Uday behaves the way he does. But I guess this is what makes us hate him rather than pity him. The fact that he's a complete mamma's boy is a nice touch, however, and adds a little bit more texture to the character.Like The Parent Trap, there's some mild humour running through. Unlike The Parent Trap, the violence is anything but mild.So by the end of the film I have fulfilled my objectives of learning more about the world (Iraq-Kuwait war, Hussein family) and seen a moving film with good characters in the bargain.