The Double (6/10)

Richard Ayoade has a very unique way of storytelling. The Double was so weird that I wasn't sure how to make heads or tails of the story.

But what I could appreciate was the humour. There were some bursts of comedic timing that were really funny, though they were few and far apart. And this world that Ayoade created visually, it's cold and dark and devoid of feeling, other than those of Jesse Eisenberg's character and his feelings for himself and Mia Wasikowska's character.

I was hoping for a clearer distinction between Eisenberg's two characters, just to show that spectrum in the different personalities. But facial expression wise, I didn't see too much. I thought this movie really showed Eisenberg's limitations as an actor. For him to play the lead here (not the alter ego), it was just like for him to play Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, the role suited him so he was good in it.

This makes me a little worried for the Lex Luthor character in Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice, because Luthor is a larger-than-life character that would require Eisenberg to push his current boundaries - unless Zack Snyder changed his version of Luthor to one I'm not familiar with.

Because the story was so weird, it was difficult to get into and follow the slow pacing of the movie. And the ending was also one giant question mark that there was no satisfaction of following the story to its end.