well and his clone in Moon.
There’s usually a physical division between the two brothers
- bar counters, tables etc - which
draws unwanted attention to the
effect, and in several scenes the
eye-lines don’t quite match. Hardy gives an energetic dual performance but too many scenes
evoke that classic Star Trek episode in which William Shatner
faced off against an evil, goateed version of himself.
Writer-director Brian Helgeland
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is best known for penning the
screenplay for L.A. Confidential,
a movie that brilliantly conveyed
a sense of time and place, making Los Angeles one of the film’s
main characters. Sadly, this isn’t
a feat repeated here; London is
hidden in the background here,
glimpsed through green-screen
windows as a poorly rendered
CG skyline, as artificial as Frasier’s Seattle. London was the
center of the earth in 1966, a city
at its cultural peak the way New
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