Jesse Eisenberg Times Two: Hour of the Wolf Movie Review of <em>The Double</em>

Okay, put away. Let's focus instead on something more worthy of attention: a dystopic, Kafkaesque comedy called, based on a novella by Dostoevsky.
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2014-05-07-The_Double_4_410.jpgOkay, put away The Amazing Spider-Man 2. That film has already caused so much pain (mostly from brain-strain as one struggles to figure out how such a major project could go so wrong), that it doesn't really deserve any more consideration. Let's focus instead on something more worthy of attention: a dystopic, Kafkaesque comedy called The Double, based on a novella by Dostoevsky and starring Jesse Eisenberg as a mousy little bureaucrat who finds his life upended when his job hires a charismatic and morally-challenged new employee who looks exactly like him. The film is directed by Richard Ayoade -- known for his involvement with The IT Crowd and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace -- and he uses his facility with unhinged humor to good effect in this sardonic glimpse into one man's crisis of identity.

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