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Double Take (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 72 Fresh: 9  Rotten:63 Average Rating: 3.4/10
 
Consensus: Despite a good performance by Orlando Jones, the movie is ruined by a ridiculous, messy plot and fails to generate laughs.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Synopsis: DOUBLE TAKE opens in Hitchcock fashion with a Manhattan businessman finding himself on the run; He is suspected of illegal activities, and has to prove his innocence while being pursued by the authorities. Hitchcock's classic version of this story is NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959). However, in... DOUBLE TAKE opens in Hitchcock fashion with a Manhattan businessman finding himself on the run; He is suspected of illegal activities, and has to prove his innocence while being pursued by the authorities. Hitchcock's classic version of this story is NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959). However, in spite of its thriller pedigree, DOUBLE TAKE is something else. Writer-director George Gallo has taken the classic elements, filtered them through the 1990s action and buddy films and produced a frenetic comedy built around the volatile chemistry of Orlando Jones and Eddie Griffin. Jones has the Cary Grant part--he is Daryl Chase, a Wall Street investment banker dealing in international accounts who becomes the fall guy when a Mexican client is revealed as the front man for a drug cartel. Griffin has the Eve Marie Saint part, but his Freddy Tiffany is no ice-cool Hitchcock blonde. Instead, he's the fast-talking streetwise hustler who aids and abets Chase as he is pursued by the police, the FBI, the CIA, and the DEA. DOUBLE TAKE swallows up the clichés of the innocent-on-the-run movie and the buddy movie, then--with Jones and Griffin trading quips and identities--throws them pell-mell on the screen in one long hilarious stream. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Eddie Griffin, Orlando Jones, Gary Grubbs, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Edward Herrmann

Director: George Gallo
Screenwriter: George Gallo
Producer: David Permut, Brett Ratner
Composer: Graeme Revell

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Release:

May 2, 2002

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David Nusair
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Jeanne Aufmuth
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03/10/03
Marrit Ingman
Austin Chronicle
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I think Double Take would have worked much better as a simple buddy comedy, without trying to have the plot of a serious thriller.

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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12/08/02
Film Threat
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About the best thing that can be said for Double Take is that the morning after seeing it you don’t really remember much about it.

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10/30/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Suffers from a scattershot approach to rapid-fire jokes that usually miss their mark, though Griffin's comedic talents brighten the proceedings and Jones does his part to add his own flavor to the mix.

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06/05/02
Dwayne E. Leslie
Boxoffice Magazine
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...this film goes beyond bad; it’s borderline racist.

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04/23/02
Larry Carroll
Countingdown.com
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This is a film that's better than it has any right to be.

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03/19/02
Ray Conlogue
Globe and Mail
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The plot itself is simple. The twists are simply thrown in to make it seem complex.

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02/26/02
Mark Dujsik
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Eighty-nine of the longest minutes ever endured in recent cinema.

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04/16/01
Karen Moline
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Not quite a dog of a movie, but it's certainly not worth barking about.

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02/07/01
Eric Monder
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02/07/01
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee
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02/07/01
Susan Stark
Detroit News
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Brian Webster
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02/07/01
Nell Minow
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