Standing at the railing, she savors the sounds around her-tourists, seals on a barge-and for a moment enjoys the sheer normalcy of it all. Now, after dinner with friends, strolling along San Francisco's Pier 39, she realizes that she's happy.
She loved her husband, renowned psychic August Ransom, but the media frenzy that followed his murder sapped what little strength she had left.
DOUBLETAKE REVIEW TV
It’s an overlong sitcom without the restraints placed by TV censors.It's been more than six months since her husband's brutal death, and Julia Ransom is just beginning to breathe again. Ultimately, many viewers, if not most, will think DOUBLE TAKE is too trifling to waste their time on at the theater.
DOUBLETAKE REVIEW MOVIE
Still, this is not a movie any child should see, if only based on the foul language alone, and many adults will find it offensive as well. DOUBLE TAKE also harbors an endearing kindness toward animals. It’s worth noting that most of the murders are pretty bloodless by Hollywood standards, and the film utterly eschews sex and nudity, beyond a lot of conversational sexual innuendo. Regrettably, witty dialogue cannot save this movie from its convoluted, tedious plot, which features a good deal of gun violence. Although riddled with racial stereotyping, this premise affords some pretty hilarious dialogue with a number of clever, creative lines. The basic comic idea behind DOUBLE TAKE is the juxtaposition of these two characters: a Harvard-educated businessman who has “forgotten” his black “roots,” and a small-time hustler from the ‘hood who may have joined the police or may be playing some sort of other game, for good or bad intentions. During the story, Freddie and Daryl often exchange identities and exaggeratedly assume each other’s mannerisms and dialect in several funny scenes. Based on gut instinct, however, Daryl elects to trust Freddie Tiffany and lets him accompany him on his run from the law. Throughout this movie, neither Daryl nor the audience (not that viewers will care) can distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. All the while he is shadowed by a man named “Freddie Tiffany” (Eddie Griffin), who claims at various junctures to be an FBI agent, a common street hustler and everything in between. Pursued by various officials who claim to be from a range of law-enforcement agencies - from the FBI to the CIA - he eventually wends his way to Mexico. Eventually, he gets framed for the murder of two policemen and goes on the lam. The script, however, does contain a number of funny lines and scenes, although they are often riddled with profanity (including liberal doses of the “N” word).įrom what can be determined from the plot, Orlando Jones plays Daryl Chase, a Harvard graduate and financier who inadvertently gets caught up in a fraudulent monetary scheme (a more specific description is impossible because none of this ever becomes clear). The dialogue and acting are often breathtakingly bad.
With a weak, nearly impenetrable plot, the movie is mainly a vehicle for the passable comedic talents of its two stars, Eddie Griffin and Orlando Jones. The movie DOUBLE TAKE is sort of a poor man’s TRADING PLACES. It’s an overlong sitcom without the usual restraints from TV censors. Ultimately, viewers will think DOUBLE TAKE is too trifling to waste their time on at the theater. Still, this is not a movie any child should see, based on the foul language alone. Most of the violence is pretty bloodless by Hollywood standards, and the film mostly eschews sex and nudity, beyond a fair amount of conversational sexual innuendo. Regrettably, witty dialogue cannot save DOUBLE TAKE from its convoluted, tedious plot, which features a good deal of violence. The comic idea behind DOUBLE TAKE is the juxtaposition of these two characters: a Harvard-educated businessman who has “forgotten” his black “roots,” and a small-time hustler from the ‘hood who may have joined the police or may be playing some sort of other game. In DOUBLE TAKE, Orlando Jones plays a successful African-American investment banker framed for murder and on the lam from the police, with only a petty thief, played by black TV comic Eddie Griffin, to help him.
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