![]() Large sign falls on car with people inside. ![]() Car sinks in river with man and dog inside. Gun pointed numerous times at character-no shots fired. Man pushed from train, hit by RR crossing sign. One man and two policemen ambushed, shot and killed. Pickpocket and fighting in street, ambushed couple, knife held to throat, shots fired, woman found murdered - blood shown on gown. This high-paced adventure shows cooperative efforts to fight crime but contains much violence and depicts corruption in government. ![]() Why is Double Take rated PG-13? Double Take is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for violence and language. Making the best of a bad situation, Daryl, who needs a passport other than his own to cross the border, switches identities with Freddy, only to discover that he is now a wanted man on both sides of the line, with the Mexican police and a Texas farmer turned bounty hunter hounding his every move. Catching a train, Daryl finds Freddy Tiffany (Eddie Griffin), a pesky street hustler he was cautioned to avoid, is already at the station. Framed for their murders and threatened by thugs, Daryl follows McCready’s advice to make a dash for Mexico. Things begin to unravel when Daryl finds his assistant murdered in her home, and a shootout between the killer and police leaves two officers dead. McCready (Gary Grubbs), Daryl is briefed on the agency’s plans to take down the drug dealers. His worst fears are realized that evening when, returning to his apartment, he and his girlfriend Chloe (Garcelle Beauvais) are ambushed by members of the Gutierrez drug cartel who use the pop production as a front. If an audience is going to be entertained by a film, first they have to be able to stand it.Director George Gallo gives us a fast-paced story of stolen identities, illegal drugs and corrupt government officials in his movie, Double Take.Ī hefty deposit into the account of a Mexican soda bottling company raises the suspicions of Harvard-educated investment banker Daryl Chase (Orlando Jones) who represents the owner. I realized there was no hope for the movie because the plot and characters had alienated me beyond repair. You know you're in trouble when your heart sinks every time a movie's live wire appears on the screen. Here is a fast-thinking, fast-talking, nimble actor who no doubt has good performances in him, but his Freddy Tiffany is unbearable-so obnoxious he approaches the fingernails-on-a-blackboard category. One of his problems is with Eddie Griffin. The movie was directed by George Gallo, who wrote the much better " Midnight Run" and here again has latched onto the idea of a nice guy and an obnoxious one involved in a road trip together. It's that when the double-reverse plotting kicks in, we want it to be funny, or entertaining, or anything but dreary and arbitrary and frustrating. It's not that we expect a movie like this to be consistent, or make sense. Wardrobes, identities, motivations and rationales are exchanged in a dizzying series of laboriously devised "surprises," until we find out that nothing is as it seems, and that isn't as it seems, either. The switch in wardrobe of course inspires a switch in personalities Freddy orders from the menu in a gourmet-snob accent, while Daryl is magically transformed into a ghetto caricature who embarrasses the waiter by demanding Schlitz Malt Liquor. The obnoxious little sprite even helps him out of a dangerous spot in a train station, by changing clothes with him, after which the two men find themselves in the dining car of a train headed for Mexico. Meanwhile, Daryl discovers he is under attack by mysterious forces for reasons he cannot understand, and to his surprise Freddy turns out to be an ally. The movie's attitudes seem so dated, indeed, that when I saw a computer screen, it came as a shock: The movie's period feels as much pre-desktop as it does pre-taste.įreddy embarrasses Daryl a few more times, including during a fashion show, where he appears on the runway and shoulders aside the models. Who is this guy? He seems to have an almost supernatural ability to materialize anywhere, to know Daryl's secret plans, to pop up like a genie and to embarrass him with a jive-talking routine that seems recycled out of the black exploitation pictures of the 1970s.
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