Review of The Double

Richard Ayoade's work is extremely derivative but in perfect symbiosis with the original Dostoevsky's book. The grotesquely absurd dystopian world; the depressing, cynical tone; the perpetual night enlightened by discontinued artificial lights of different colors; the continuing feeling of injustice, claustrophobia, perfectly organized caos; the sensation of being completely out of place and still so irreversibly integrated with the society; everything feels so right for the story that it's difficult to think of an alternative way of telling it. Also a better actor could not have been chosen to play this role outside of Jesse Eisenberg, simply terrific.