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Deception (2008)

April. 25,2008
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As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The List, an underground sex club. Jonathan begins an affair with a woman known only as S, who introduces Jonathan to a world of treachery and murder.

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Pluskylang
2008/04/25

Great Film overall

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InformationRap
2008/04/26

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Humaira Grant
2008/04/27

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

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Derrick Gibbons
2008/04/28

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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Tweekums
2008/04/29

Jonathan McQuarry is an accountant whose job is to go into large firms and audit their accounts. It isn't the sort of job that helps one make friends; half the people at the companies he audits are worried he'll spot a mistake they made the others don't see the point of befriending somebody who'll soon be gone. For this reason Jonathan is happy when lawyer Wyatt Bose introduces himself; they smoke a joint together, play a bit of tennis then Wyatt has to go away for a little while. Soon after it becomes apparent that after their last meeting they each picked up the other's phone. It turns out that Wyatt is part of a club known as 'The List'; members of which can call a fellow member for anonymous sex… Wyatt is happy for Jonathan to use it while he is away. He enjoys himself till one day the person who calls him is a beautiful woman he spoke to briefly on the subway a month previously. They have a second date but it goes wrong; she disappears and he is knocked out… it isn't long before he learns that Wyatt isn't the friend he though; he is told that if he is to see the girl alive again he must transfer millions of dollars out of the accounts of the next firm he audits.This is a solid little neo-noir thriller that takes its time introducing the characters before revealing what the story is really about. Watching with absolutely no prior knowledge the first half gives no real hints about what is going to happen… although the title should make one realise that at least one character isn't quite what they seem. Once bad things do start to happen the main twists aren't too surprising but are still effective. Ewan McGregor is solid as Jonathon, an everyman sort of character caught up in what seems like a dream but what turns into a nightmare; Hugh Jackman impresses as the charismatic 'Wyatt' and Michelle Williams is good as the woman known only as 'S' who Jonathon understandably falls for. Overall I rather enjoyed this; it isn't a must see but is worth watching if it is on TV or if you see the DVD in a charity shop.

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juneebuggy
2008/04/30

This was okay, I was expecting it to better though with Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams attached but it just fell kinda flat especially as an "erotic thriller". I will say it didn't ever go where I thought it going to, the mystery aspect was unique in that respect.Ewan McGregor plays a nerdy shy accountant here who is introduced to a secretive sex club known as "The List" when he mistakenly swaps phones with his smooth talking lawyer friend Hugh Jackman. "Are you free tonight?" is how it all starts, Jonathan soon falls for one of the members and then becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance as well as a multi-million dollar heist.Jackman and McGregor had pretty good chemistry together, I like both these actors so they were an easy sell and it was interesting how they managed to look so alike later on. Michelle Williams is super talented but she's wasted here in a dull, fluffy role that left zero impression.One big issue I had was with the two cases containing 10 million dollars that are just left in the park. Really! that's insane besides the fact that "he" needs the money no one would just leave 10 million dollars and walk away. 2/15/16

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Fredrik Bendz
2008/05/01

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.

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random4ever
2008/05/02

its a decent movie and i found it to be a bit to slow and you can see some stuff happening a mile away if your into these types of movies. its about sex, money and black mailing and nothing wrong with Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, and Michelle Williams they all done a great job acting, its the story thats gets slow and boring at times it just needed a slight rewrite for the odd parts with a occasional stupid line from someone. there are a few holes near the end that i would like plugged. besides that its not bad, you can find better for this type of film. watch it have fun and enjoy the show, it could of been better and its not but its not bad.

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