DVD: The Devil's Double (18)

"You are asking me to extinguish myself," Latif pleads with Uday Hussein. The eldest son of despot Saddam has just asked Latif to be his body double; the soldier is understandably reluctant.

After a bit of torture, he changes his mind, and Latif is effectively "dead". Dominic Cooper excels as both Udays (ripe as deranged Uday; watchful as Latif) in this lurid gangster saga, which is full of torture scenes, sex, bad music and gunfights.

It doesn't appear to have a lot to do with actual reality, and it feels in poor taste with very little feeling for politics, but Tamahori invests The Devil's Double with an admirable zest.