I remember Val Kilmer as a knockout gangster in Heat. He was great as Simon Templar in The Saint opposite Elizabeth Shue. He played a very believable Doc Holiday in Wyatt. BUT: He was awful in Double Identity.

Maybe we should not fault the actor. The storyline was so poor that it was almost laughable. I will for once be a spoiler, because I would recommend highly against any readers seeing this film.

A doctor is doing goodwill work behind the Iron Curtain, somewhere in Bulgaria. There, he is mistaken for a spy, so the various mafias are after him. He can often escape to freedom but does not. He is of course smitten by a pretty face, so why would he want to get back to the West? Uh, to survive, maybe?

Why are the baddies after him? Who knows? Who cares? Why doesn't he get of there when he can? Who knows? Who cares? Why does the plot go from okay to utterly stupid? Who knows? Who cares?

This reviewer is normally quite positive on films. My esteemed colleague sometimes implies that I tend to overstate the credits and understate the debits. Not true this time.

Stay away from this dog! F for Failure to be intelligent or entertaining.