The Devil's Double Review

IMDb Rating: 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 52% on the Tomatometer 67% of audiences liked it.
Notable Cast/Crewmembers: Dominic Cooper, Mimoun Oaïssa, Raad Rawi, Dar Salim
Genre: Drama, Biography

It deserves WAY more credit than it gets.
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Latif is invited by Saddam Hussein's son Uday Hussein, to be his double. He initially refuses, but he hears that if he doesn't do it, his family will be murdered. He gives in and starts his training to become a narcissistic, psycho drunk. He gets involved in shootings, drug incidents and prostitution. His boss is everywhere, to ensure he does not escape.
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Though I'm not the kind of person who likes to watch blood and shootings, I very much enjoyed this film. It is, as far as I know, very realistic and very scary. It's not so much the actual physical violence (though that is also pretty shocking and explicit, but it really adds to the experience) but more the fear of never being able to say what you want, not even allowed to think different thoughts.
What I also loved very much is that they used the same actor for both Uday and Latif. It's weird to think about how one person (Dominic Cooper) has to play three people: Latif, Uday and Latif acting like Uday. To be honest, it wasn't until the closing credits that I noticed that they were the same person. Kudos to mister Cooper.
EDIT:
Apparently this is extremely fictionalized and has near to nothing to do with what actually happened. I'm not sure though, it's just what I heard on the internets.
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Uday Hussein: Allah gives me nothing. Everything I want, I take for myself.
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-The Shy Hipster