Rated R
Running Time: 1 hr 47 mins
Cast:
** out of *****
(12% Fresh Rating!)
Mikey @ The Movies Official Rating:
* out of *****
The Premise:
An accountant is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend. But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
MY REVIEW
Yikes, I didn't know I'd be watching some weird soft core porn when I rented this movie. I think half of this movie was just about Ewan McGregor's (Moulin Rouge, Trainspotting) shy, shut off character having sexual intercourse with numerous mysterious women in fancy hotels. Young AND old. Which is why I found most of this movie to just be dirty and gross.
The movie had a really stupid storyline outside of what I just mentioned. While McGregor falls in love with one of these mysterious ladies of the night played by Oscar nominee Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain), Hugh Jackman's (The Prestige, X-Men trilogy) character is busy plotting some sinister scheme to use McGregor to transfer millions of dollars from one bank to another. Oh, so diabolical! Please like we haven't seen that before. Now you know I don't mind when movies share similarities, I even think it's silly at this point to compare movies. But this idea has been done so much better is all I'm trying to say. This was just a really, REALLY weak version of the particular story. I mean even go as far to say that Deception is one of the very worst movies of 2008. It won't make my final cut I'm sure, but you get the point.
The film is just to concerened with looking to flashy and sleek and has no focus on it's story. Like I said, a good portion of this movie is a character meeting extravagent ladies for sex in hotels. In reality, this part of the movie has almost nothing to do with the movie's main story. So therefore it's tasteless and just plain old crude. The more that I think about it and write this review, the more I realize how much I genuinely hated this movie. It was bland, it was stupid, it was dirty, it spent way to much time on a storyline that wasn't needed. Blah!
Deception is just a terrible movie. The only reason I give it one measly star is because through all of it, it had some pretty decent performances and it did look cool for a while before the director spent way to much time on that aspect. Don't see it, that's just my advice.
To view this film's theatrical trailer, click this link: Deception
*This is the 140th new film I've seen and reviewed this year.
*This film is now on DVD.
I completely agree with you and is having the same opinion for this movie. This movie is a complete rubbish. When I first read about this movie I thought it would be a thriller one but this movie is short of thrills. I will not recommend this movie at any cost to give it even a single try.
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