Deceived (2002)
In a remote space observatory perched high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a needle frantically scratches erratic lines on a strip chart recorder confirming an extraterrestrial signal. Emmett Shaw, the powerful, charismatic billionaire who owns the observatory, rushes to the station, hungry to expose the discovery. This is the biggest moment in human history and he is the man responsible for it all. With the goal of immediately sharing the signal with the entire world, he brings along two leading journalists--Kara Walsh, an extremely attractive, top-notch investigative reporter who begrudgingly owes her career to Shaw, and Reverend Fletcher, a new age visionary with the hottest radio show in the country. Also accompanying Shaw is Jack Jones, a scruffy but brilliant computer technician whose pessimistic and often sarcastic attitude ruffles many feathers in the group--especially Smitty's, the program director, who happens to be Jack's ex-girlfriend and the only Christian in the group.
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This movie is fairly suspenseful as far this kind of movie goes. It has its moments where it kept me glued to the TV. On some occasions, I did grow bored enough to go to the fridge without bothering to hit pause. One of the climatic scenes where three of the characters end up in a fight over who will control Nelson's character was just plain ridiculous, and whether intentionally so or not, was out of place in such a serious movie. It seemed rather contrived. Also contrived was the time sequence of the transmission that is at the focus of this movie. The time lapse of the transmission is...(you guessed it. tahdah.) This being my first Cloud Ten film, I won't make a decision on their style and brilliance (or lack thereof) until i have had a chance to see others of these Christian-based films.
Well, it can be truly horrifically bad, as in "Battlefield Earth". Or it can be stupidly cheaply exploitatively bad, as in "Attack of the Giant Leeches". Or, it can be painfully embarrassingly bad as in "Face the Music". "Deceived" is innovative in that it creates a new kind of bad, cheap certainly but in a preachy posing altruisticaly bad way. It's as if the actors, most of whom are at least competent, sacrifice themselves for the good of the cause, saying words and performing actions that must have caused their thespian guts to wring themselves inside out. Still they trooped on and we have the result. There's enough camp to make it watchable, sort of, and of course with this kind of thing there's always curiousity about just how far down the road to "Plan 9..." it will go. The answer is quite a ways.
I agree with the over reviewers, stay away from this movie at all costs. Putting aside the "Christian propaganda" aspect of it, this movie just doesn't have anything compelling going for it. The plot is meanadering and uninteresting, the characters are archetypical and flat, and the acting is so bad you want to throw objects at the screen during certain scenes. When you factor in the obviously overt religious agenda ("Maybe prayer IS still relevant to modern life...") there is just no doubt that this film will ONLY be of ANY enjoyment whatsoever to the 5 people out there that actually want to hear this apocalyptical Christian babble. If you don't need a lecture on how to be saved and feel compentant to leave evangelism out of your cinematic experience then walk, no, run from this movie at all costs.
Cloud Ten has made some pretty decent films in the past such as the Apocolypse Series, which I actually enjoyed, but this film is pure garbage. Thank God I didn't pay full price for it ( I auctioned it off of ebay for around $10.00). This movie should be number one in the "Worst Movies of All Time". The storyline is so retarded. If you don't want to waste your time and money, do yourself a favor and avoid seeing this film. -1/10