a5c7b9f00b A retired CIA spy and a fledgling FBI agent team up to investigate the murder of a U.S. senator and catch a notorious killer in this high-stakes political thriller starring Richard Gere and Topher Grace. Back when he was an active operative, Paul Shepherdson (Gere) devoted his every waking minute to capturing &quot;Cassius&quot; – an elusive Soviet hit-man with a spectral reputation. Decades later, Shepherdson believes that Cassius has been taken out of the game. But when a U.S. senator is assassinated and all evidence links the killing to Cassius, Shepherdson&#39;s former boss Tom Highland (Martin Sheen) convinces his old operative to investigate. Meanwhile, FBI agent Ben Geary (Grace) becomes positively certain that the high-profile murder is the work of the notorious Soviet hatchet man, and begins working with Shepherdson to crack the case. Now, in order to learn their target&#39;s true identity, Shepherdson and Geary must first revisit the entire case from top to bottom. In the process, the two determined men uncover a clue that indicates Cassius may not, in fact, be the prime suspect that the government has been chasing for decades, but instead the last person anyone ever expected. A retired CIA operative is paired with a young FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator&#39;s murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin. I just finished reading a spirited discussion of this film on its IMDb board, and I must say, there seems to be confusion over the plot and people are dividedto whether or not they liked it. Most of the posters hated it.<br/><br/>&quot;The Double&quot; is a 2011 film starring Richard Gere, Topher Grace, and Martin Sheen. A retired CIA agent (Richard Gere) is brought back into action when an assassin believed dead seems to have returned. The agent, Paul Shepherdson disagrees that it&#39;s this particular assassin, Cassius, but a young, ambitious FBI agent, who has become an expert on Cassius, is sure that he is killing again. The two team up to find him.<br/><br/>The first twist is the one that people seem to be of two minds about - without giving anything away, I&#39;ll say that some people think the Shepherdson character was telling the truth, and others think he wasn&#39;t. The second twist is okay. But frankly, there wasn&#39;t much original here.<br/><br/>The script is kind of slapped together and the movie is rather short for the material. I&#39;ve never been a fan of Richard Gere, and this film didn&#39;t convert me. I wasn&#39;t familiar with Topher Grace. He&#39;s somewhat bland.<br/><br/>In the end, I don&#39;t know who&#39;s right and who&#39;s wrong about the first twist. This for me was a rather average film no matter what. If you rent it, you&#39;ll probably like it better than if you spent $10-12 for it. I guessed the plot before they even gave the hints. This is almost a good movie - the acting talent just about saves it.<br/><br/>It was an OK performance direction-wise but watching it was like listening to a competent amateur pianist plod through a Chopin piece. It was just bland, and lacking in artistry or sophistication. A barely warm dish of Cold War leftovers that shows its hand too early, then works itself into an increasingly implausible tangle of knotty plot developments without ever mustering much intensity.
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