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04/25/08
Deception (2008)
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Reviews Counted:92
Fresh:11
Rotten:81
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: Deception is a middling, predictable potboiler with mediocre dialogue and ludicrous plot twists.
Theatrical Release:25-04-2008
Synopsis: Marcel Langenegger makes his feature-film directorial debut with the aptly titled DECEPTION, a film about secrets and lies. Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) feels that life is passing him by. He... [More]
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams, Natasha Henstridge
Director: Marcel Langenegger
Reviews for Deception
This is one of those films where as long as you don't know what's going on it's interesting, but once everything is revealed you start noticing all the plot holes.
04/25/08
Deception will deceive very few viewers as an all-too-obvious setup leads to a foregone conclusion featuring forgettable characters.
04/25/08
Top CriticThe director, Swiss-born Marcel Langenegger, has the knack of being able to distract you from the plot's excesses.
04/25/08
An accountant's sex fantasy, Deception is the story of an audit gone deliciously bad.
04/25/08
Simultanously silly and sleep-inducing.
04/25/08
Frankly there's nothing sadder in the world than to watch a sex-laden film unable to climax properly.
04/25/08
[D]espite a fair amount of suspense and good performances from all three leads, this is one of those films where [the central] scheme ... depends on a million little unpredictable details breaking properly.
04/24/08
Despite its timid title, Deception has all the right ingredients for a decent tale of mystery. The real mystery is why this strong beginning led to such a weak and conventional conclusion.
04/24/08
Wolverines and Cougars aside, there are more than one strokes responsible for violating their own rules and putting a name on the film that is only an introduction to what's wrong with it.
04/24/08
Wants to be as dirty, sexy and thrilling as Basic Instinct, but it's more like Eyes Wide Shut or Basic Instinct 2.
04/24/08
Anyone who's ever seen any kind of twisty thriller will know who's in on it, how and why.
04/24/08
Trading in shabby trickery, Deception proves painfully incapable of building a better suspense-movie mousetrap.
04/24/08
To his credit, Langenegger keeps things relatively simple instead of resorting to lots of fast cutting and fancy camera angles. To his detriment, the picture he has made barely moves at all.
04/24/08
A bore.
04/24/08
From the nondescript title on down, Deception is a movie made to be forgotten.
04/24/08
You don't have to be a genius to find yourself several steps ahead of this helpfully titled mystery thriller.
04/24/08
A thin thriller, burdened by clunky dialogue and prone to telegraphing its twists.
04/24/08
Top CriticA generic thriller with a generic title, Deception is so predictable you could guess what happens even if the trailer hadn’t already given away just about every important plot development.
04/24/08
This boring, obvious and overly stylish cat-and-mouse thriller offers fewer thrills than a 'Tom and Jerry' cartoon.
04/24/08
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