An Unofficial See It or Skip It: Duplicity

March 20, 2009 at 6:05am PST
Photos: Universal Pictures

We didn’t have the chance to see Duplicity before it opened today, but our friend Heidi did and we asked for a report.

According to Heidi, who has really good taste and a high tolerance for pain, Duplicity was “so mind-numbingly awful, I think we can call it the first Seven Pounds of 2009. I fell asleep for like 10 or fifteen minutes.”

Oh snap. She invoked Seven Pounds.

Seven Pounds is to good filmmaking what the Hindenburg was to aviation.

Ohhhh, the humanity.

If Duplicity is anywhere close to that horror, we’re going to have to give it an unofficial "skip it"!

—Sasha Perl-Raver

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