“The Devil’s Double”.

This is the story of Uday Hussein’s “body double”, Latif Yahia. A veteran of the Iran/Iraq war of the 1980s, Yahia is pressed into service to act in the place of Saddam’s son Uday, due to Yahia’s remarkable likeness of Uday.

The movie is sickening and disgusting. It is simply sickening and disgusting.

From the New York Times review: “

Uday, a pathetic and dangerous weakling beneath his playboy strut, presents an interesting case study in the psychopathology of unchecked privilege. A rapist, cokehead and sadist, sentimentally attached to his mother and brutally contemptuous of all other women, Uday is a walking cartoon of degeneracy. Puffing on big cigars, brandishing Rolex watches and oversize pistols, he looks like a teenager acting out fantasies gleaned from hip-hop videos. And as the film moves through his world of blood and sex and curdled machismo, “The Devil’s Double” inhales some of his toxic, shallow energy. At times you feel as if you were stuck in Grand Theft Auto: Baghdad City, which, while entertaining enough, can also become a bit wearying.”

The movie is just sickening and disgusting. I can’t say enough sickening and disgusting things about it. Uday Hussein was that bad.