Aaron Paul and Karen Gillan appear in DUAL, image Courtesy of Sundance Institute.
I continue with my 2022 Sundance Film Festival coverage by reviewing Dual. My intrigue for Dual was high because I am a fan of Riley Stearns’s last feature, The Art of Self Defense. The film also stars two actors I like in Karen Gillian and Aaron Paul.
An absolute bonkers of an opening watch one man who is getting shot by bow and arrows chase down the man and beat him to death. When reading the synopsis, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the film had my full attention from the start.
Upon finding out that her illness was in remission and she can’t terminate her double, Sarah has one year to train to fight her double in the Dual. From this point, I have no clue what Stearns was trying to accomplish, but it was a complete misfire.
Dual is a lifeless disaster
The film has an interesting premise, but my goodness, the acting was brutal. I never once connected to Sarah, and Karen Gillian didn’t help the cause one bit. The character had no raw emotion to feed off of and that alone disconnects you from caring whether or not she’s going to die.
Also, I know we all love Aaron Paul, but the guy hasn’t been good in anything outside of Breaking Bad. I am not sure what he was doing in this film, but he was stiff as a board and brought nothing to the table here.
We built up this entire film for the “Dual,” and we didn’t even get it? What makes me even more upset than anything else is that the script had an intriguing premise and a pretty fantastic opening that somehow fell out the window after the first ten minutes. I am not sure what the point of this entire movie was, but my goodness, did it make me seek a replacement for myself.
Dual movie review: A lifeless disaster that is a waste of time
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