Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy is one of those exasperating movie experiences where reality and metaphor are combined into an indecipherable riddle. The film is certainly arresting to look at, and star Jake Gyllenhaal gives his all playing two disparate roles, but the director wants his movie to be both a straight narrative and a philosophical treatise on an unhappy, unbalanced man who may be having a psychological, schizophrenic episode, and the film just doesn’t work with that approach. We keep getting handed one kind of film at the very moment we’re starting to settle in with the other kind resulting in a movie that in itself is schizophrenic and ultimately most unsatisfying.
Studio: Lionsgate
Distributed By: N/A
Video Resolution and Encode: 1080P/AVC
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audio: English 5.1 DTS-HDMA
Subtitles: English, English SDH, Spanish
Rating: R
Run Time: 1 Hr. 30 Min.
Package Includes: Blu-ray
keep caseDisc Type: BD25 (single layer)
Region: A
Release Date: 06/24/2014
MSRP: $24.99
The Production Rating: 2.5/5
Video Rating: 4/5 3D Rating: NA
Audio Rating: 4.5/5
Special Features Rating: 1.5/5
Overall Rating: 2.5/5
Reviewed By: Matt Hough
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