- Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News, November 18, 2011
- Lou Lumenick, New York Post, November 17, 2011
- Stephen Holden, New York Times, November 17, 2011
- , Los Angeles Times, November 17, 2011
- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly, October 29, 2011
- , New York Times, October 28, 2011
- Alexis Loinaz, Chicago Tribune, October 28, 2011
- Andrew Schenker, Village Voice, October 26, 2011
- Robert Koehler, Variety, October 21, 2011
- David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter, October 21, 2011
- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly, September 07, 2011
Equally as offensive as the movie's smorgasbord of smut and violence is the lingering whiff of colonial-era orientalism, a Western predilection for regarding Eastern cultures as innately idle, lascivious, irrational, and thus ripe for intervention.
- Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader, September 01, 2011
It is a ghastly, riveting, dazzling piece of work.
- Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 17, 2011
See it for Dominic Cooper's performance, avoid it for the messy structure and refusal to properly get under the skin of either its mad, bad and dangerous villain or straight-laced hero.
- , Film4, August 11, 2011
This isn't exactly a complex study of Iraqi history, but director Lee Tamahori punches it across, and the Stalinesque use of doubles in Iraq is interesting.
- Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK], August 11, 2011
The hero of "The Devil's Double" may get upstaged by the villain, but that's not exactly bad news for star Dominic Cooper, since he plays both parts.
- Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic, August 11, 2011
Dominic Cooper is hammily amusing in one part and merely wooden in the other.
- Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph, August 11, 2011
- , Miami Herald, November 04, 2011
- Kalvin Henely, Slant Magazine, October 29, 2011
- , AV Club, October 28, 2011
