Deception

Name: Deception
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance, Crime
Released: April 25, 2008
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 31
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: April 25, 2008 | R

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman

Summary: A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose, a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upperA simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose, a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper crust. For these power brokers, whose eighteen-hour workdays leave no time for a personal life, there's "The List" - a sex club, of sorts, where the right cell-phone number and four simple words ("Are you free tonight?") can lead to an evening's sexual fulfillment. It's a world of "intimacy without intricacy," as Jonathan's first conquest (or vice versa) explains to him, and through The List Jonathan discovers a side of himself that he didn't know existed. But an affair with a ravishing and mysterious stranger known to Jonathan only by her first initial 'S', will expose him to yet another world he never imagined - one of betrayal, treachery and murder. (20th Century Fox)… Expand

Director: Marcel Langenegger

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 107 min

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TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Jackman and McGregor are a delight to watch. Read full review

Claudia Puig

Deception is not the cool, noirish thriller it tries to be. Despite a cast that includes double-crossers Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor and Michelle Williams caught in the middle, the film is a yawn. Read full review

Michael Phillips

With her arresting, off-kilter look of bruised desire, Michelle Williams ends up being the most interesting aspect of this somber corn. Read full review

Stephen Cole

A lamentably slack and dishonest genre exercise. Read full review

Desson Thomson

Deception is another example of when genre-fication (the forcing of otherwise intriguing stories into the straitjackets of horror, thriller or other genres) reduces our entertainment to head-shaking banality. Read full review

J.R. Jones

Jackman and McGregor throw their best American accents behind the effort, but Michelle Williams seems fairly bored as the sex-club partner who wins McGregor's heart. I'm with her. Read full review

Steve Davis

Whether you view it as intellectually dishonest or just plain sloppy, Deception is a movie that more than lives up to its title. Read full review

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jelenabiebs31

Jan 13, 2016

Really good movie. I enjoyed the twists and turns and was delighted with the finish. Well done.

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QuinH.

May 15, 2010

Highly underrated! If you like thrillers and dont mind nudity with women then watch it!!!!

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Meth-dude

Aug 26, 2015

The movie might not be believable but and uninteresting at parts but overall it was good.McGregor and Jackman's acting performances were stunning and the characters were well made.But, the movie had some plot holes that had some major repercussions at the end.Overall, a good movie.NothingThe movie might not be believable but and uninteresting at parts but overall it was good.McGregor and Jackman's acting performances were stunning and the characters were well made.But, the movie had some plot holes that had some major repercussions at the end.Overall, a good movie.Nothing more, nothing less.… Expand

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JayH

Sep 18, 2008

The plot is far fetched, the story is uninvolving and for a thriller, it has too many slow stretches. Well made technically, the stars are bland.

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ChadS.

Apr 26, 2008

If "Deception" was a European production, first of all, there would be more sex. Waaaay more sex. Even if a dead body, or two, turned up, it wouldn't stop the French, or the Swedes, or the Krauts, from f****** like bunnies, and not feeling guilty about it the next morning. If If "Deception" was a European production, first of all, there would be more sex. Waaaay more sex. Even if a dead body, or two, turned up, it wouldn't stop the French, or the Swedes, or the Krauts, from f****** like bunnies, and not feeling guilty about it the next morning. If "Deception" was a Tootsie Roll Pop, we'd want to know how many licks it would take to get to the center. But "Deception" doesn't want to be graphic like a sucker. The film lacks the tongue for it. In other words, we never find out how many anonymous sexual encounters it would take before Jonathan McQuarry(Ewan McGregor) got sick of "The List". That's because "Deception" would rather be a second-rate version of David Mamet's "The Spanish Prisoner", as the film turns into a sort of Hitchcockian coitus interruptus. Since the film ignores the potential for irony(an irony that a European production might've strived for): a lonely man who ends up lonelier, even though he's always surrounded by beautiful, willing women; for the love of God, I thought, please don't let Wyatt Bose(Hugh Jackman) turn out to be imaginary. Please don't let this sex club be like "Fight Club". But such a banality is all relative. Regardless of Wyatt's true identity and motive for befriending Jonathan, "Deception", like most contemporary mainstream American films, fails to deal with sexual themes in a methodologically serious fashion.… Expand

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PKO

May 3, 2008

Chad S. Nails it perfectly with a 4! As I left the theatre I thought "If you want to see this movie done well, see The Spanish Prisoner by David Mamet." It is all this film was not: clever and intriguing. I'd gladly watch Ewan McGregor or Hugh Jackman make toast for 2 hours, but this Chad S. Nails it perfectly with a 4! As I left the theatre I thought "If you want to see this movie done well, see The Spanish Prisoner by David Mamet." It is all this film was not: clever and intriguing. I'd gladly watch Ewan McGregor or Hugh Jackman make toast for 2 hours, but this film tries the patience since is could have been so much more and, ultimately, is nothing at all. Even the sex is not that hot, which is difficult to manage considering who is involved. Rental? Maybe on a slow night alone, in January.… Expand

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JaySupertramp

Feb 7, 2012

Half of the movie was like a porn and the other half was predictable. A waste of good actors for a simple and boring plot. It didnt thrill me at all...

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