An overwrought and ultimately silly thriller.
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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:Apr 25, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $4,575,019
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
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Reviews for Deception
Top CriticHigh in gloss and light on brains.
04/25/08
There's only one good con game going on here. And it's the studio's sneaky plot to nimbly pick $11 from your pocket.
04/25/08
Top CriticIs there anything more boring than watching $20 million being electronically trans ferred to an offshore bank account? Maybe it's someone repeatedly barking 'You have no idea what I'm capable of!' into a cellphone.
04/25/08
Top CriticEvery actor has a few titles on his résumé that he'd love to forget. So should you ever have the opportunity to meet Deception stars Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor, we highly recommend you pretend this movie was never made.
04/25/08
The plot comes together in Madrid in a whirl of multimillion-dollar swindles and gunplay, and for all its contrived surprises, it has the feel of a well-designed mousetrap snapping shut.
04/25/08
Overly deliberate, quite preposterous thriller.
04/25/08
Deception would be laughably bad if it weren't so rotely inert.
04/25/08
Predictable double-cross piles on predictable double-cross, leading to a conclusion so shocking, you could have knocked me over with a wrecking ball.
04/25/08
Judged entirely below the belt it's almost worth watching, but from the heart on up it's just not a good enough lie to be entertaining.
04/25/08
Deception is one of those films that leave you feeling vaguely dirty and wholly unsatisfied, a distasteful and wholly unbelievable mix of soft porn and obvious duplicity that holds not one ounce of emotional truth.
04/25/08
Deception recalls the fantasies of Showtime's soft-core series Red Shoe Diaries. It's often tastefully laughable.
04/25/08
What can compare with the white-knuckle suspense of uploading a file?
04/25/08
Calling your terrible crime thriller Deception is like naming your bad cooking movie Food -- an advertisement for laziness.
04/25/08
Top CriticDeception is star-filled and competently crafted, but so afraid of real sexuality that it instead offers us soft-lit perfume-ad images, and is erroneously convinced that moviegoers won't be able to spot lazy storytelling once their glasses are steamed up
04/25/08
Williams has no chance to create a character, and McGregor's is one big -- no, slender -- cliche. And if it's fun at first to see Jackman acting urbane instead of all Wolverine-like, by the end he's just another brute in a suit.
04/25/08
This is one slick flick about a world most of us will never experience. 'Deception' almost pulls it off ---- almost.
04/25/08
If the filmmakers were expecting to dupe their audience with Hitchcock-like twists, then they severely underestimated the intelligence of the average moviegoer.
04/25/08
It's almost as if someone involved let the cat out of the bag figuring that angry critics are certainly better for your career than angry, pissed-off fans. (Hugh, I'm looking at you.)
04/25/08
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
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