NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Python Hyena Deception (2008): Dir: Mark Langenegger / Cast: Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Charlotte Rampling, Lisa Gay Hamilton: A play in terms of what we believe and what is fact. Ewan McGregor plays an accountant talked into joining a sex club only to be used to extort money. Lots of sex and hotel rooms but only one woman he desires. Plot draws viewers in much like the scheme but conclusion is simplistic. McGregor plays off the desperation of someone lured into blackmail. He is the everyman but falls into the trap of lust and deception before realizing that to free himself, he will need to reduce to the same standards. Director Marcel Langenegger establishes fine location shots and a few good plot turns. Hugh Jackman plays the deceiver acting like the perfect friend but fails to realize that his deception can become his ultimate downfall. Michelle Williams plays the central call girl who seduces McGreger before disappearing with only an alarming phone image left to him. Charlotte Rampling is underused as an older call girl. She displays her wisdom and knowledge in two scenes that do nothing more than compel rather than move the story. Lisa Gay Hamilton is featured as a detective but the role is limited at best. With numerous twists and double crosses galore the film references the forbidden fruit that we're warned to stay away from. Score: 7 ½ / 10

Dr_Sagan Although this is advertised as an "erotic thriller" there is nothing thrilling about it and most certainly it isn't erotic.The title should be different. By calling your movie "Deception" you make the audience doubt just about anything from the beginning. The "good" friend obviously has a hidden agenda. The "dead" can't really be dead and so on.It's about an elaborate scam towards an accountant of a big corporation. An anonymous sex club that dominates the beginning of the film, wasn't necessary at all for the scam, and this is a serious indication that the movie is pretentious and just tries to incorporate elements so to become more intriguing.The same goes for the ridiculous twists, one after the other near the end. Twists so to speak, because you can see them coming a mile away.Lots of well known actors in this and they give adequate performances but there are so many flaws plotwise that you can't really take this movie seriously, especially the last 15 minutes or so.The direction doesn't work well either nor the music which sets the tone of the film."Are you free tonight?" is the code line for the secret sex network. Well, I was free, but then I decided to saw this lame movie.

dglink Mousy accountant, Ewan McGregor, meets dashing womanizer, Hugh Jackman, and cat chases mouse, mouse chases cat, and both cat and mouse chase the cheese, Michelle Williams. Unfortunately, the film's title, "Deception," is a major spoiler, and any sharp experienced movie goer will catch the clues early on. While slickly directed by Marcel Langenegger and well acted by an attractive cast, Mark Bomback's script covers well-trod territory, leaves threads dangling, and fails to explain at least one murder. Motives are evident almost immediately, and the same plot twists have been twisted so many times in so many other films, no surprises are left. McGregor's character is a blank with little to no history, evidently no friends or family, and little development; he is a pawn played by Jackman. Jackman's history is slowly revealed, although the means to that exposure are unconvincing. After the final scene, viewers are warned to focus their attention on the closing credit roll to avoid pondering the unresolved quandary exposed.Perhaps McGregor is too attractive to convince as a bespectacled numbers cruncher, who can count his sexual experiences on one hand, but Jackman easily portrays the handsome, slimy, and duplicitous con man, who seduces McGregor into a murky world of anonymous sexual trysts. Elegant Charlotte Rampling, physically stunning as the Wall Street Belle, makes an all too brief cameo as one of these trysts. Although the talented Williams is lovely and effective, she has little to do in a film focused on what Jackman refers to as "foreplay" between the two male leads.Undemanding viewers will find that "Deception" holds their attention, while buffs will chuckle at the transparent plot developments and try to remember where they saw them first. Langenegger's film is not bad, it is just too familiar. The production is first class, and the talented cast earnest, but unchallenged. Unfortunately, the script is tired, and some viewers may catnap throughout.

Fredrik Bendz I loved the footage and overall mood of this movie. Michelle Williams is hot as "S" - not a perfect face but very sexy nevertheless. I hope I don't sound too sexist, but she really had something.The plot kept my interest most of the time. I didn't find it as predictable as many other comments suggest.*Spoiler*Some examples: I didn't expect "S" to fall in love with McGuire. I didn't expect him to require double signatures to take out the money. I didn't expect him to leave 20 million USD behind when he could have taken it and walked away. What I did expect, once I knew "S" part of everything, was that McGuire would get the money and the girl - that didn't happen.*End of spoiler*As a thriller, it's about average, but the footage and overall mood lifts it to a higher score, at least in my opinion. (For some reason I, several times, associated it with the computer game Deus EX: Human Evolution).I watched this on TV, and I found it much more exciting and interesting than most of the stuff that is being broad casted today.