But some, like Double Take, are so bad you can't look away. Director George Gallo's script seems to write itself as it goes along, twisting into blind alleys and inventing one implausible wrinkle after another, never even considering a stop to catch its breath. You half expect someone from the screen to call out and ask the audience for suggestions. Instead, we get two talented comic actors, Eddie Griffin and Orlando Jones, riffing off the skeletal frame of a premise. They know how to riff, mind you.
Double Take is a fascinating exercise in jettisoning even the pretext of context.
It's a minimalist lowbrow comedy. Jones plays New York investment banker Daryl Chase, framed for murder and money laundering for a Mexican drug cartel. Griffin is Freddy Tiffany, a fast-talking petty thief. Or maybe former FBI agent. Apparently no one on the film could decide until the last day of shooting.