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Double trouble in 'Enemy'
In a dual role in "Enemy," Jake Gyllenhaal plays Adam, a glum professor disinterested by his ordinary life who discovers a man who appears to be his double. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and hauntingly intertwined.
For all the skill with which director Denis Villeneuve creates a forbidding, soupy-colored dystopia (whether in Adam's imagination or downtown Toronto), "Enemy" feels like something we've seen before — not just from Lynch but David Cronenberg, Stanley Kubrick and any number of contemporary masters of the subconscious at its most fetishistic and unnerving. (To make the Lynchian comparison that much easier, Isabella Rossellini makes a cameo appearance as Adam's mother.)
There's no doubt that Villeneuve can make a movie. He's developed a strong cinematic voice. It's tantalizing to imagine what he could do with a really fine story.
Extras on the DVD and Blu-ray (Lions Gate, $20-$25) include a making-of featurette.
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Colin Covert says: Those with weak hearts might want to slip out before the climax, which belongs on any serious list of staggering cinematic sucker punches.
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