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If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Blistering performances.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Deceiver is another of these must see movies. It's one of my top ten favorites. The movie works partially because of the solid performances from it's leads, Roth, an actor who never disappoints, the best of the three. Very much like that AFI winner, The Interview, Deceiver is much more fun in the way Roth screws with you. He's the prime suspect in the murder of a high class call girl, Elizabeth Loftas (Renee Zewellger) who oozes a lot of damn sexiness, as well being a pitiable character, who you really feel sorry for, not just in her demise. There are moments in the film, and it's mainly towards the end, that you don't believe Roth is actually the killer. In his interview, where he's hounded by two cops, (Michael Rooker and Chris Penn) over a couple of days, Roth is obviously playing his own game, prolonging the interview, failing a polygraph, by faking a cough, whatever. We don't know what trick he has up his sleeve next. One scene, this game, involving cards and lies, one that Roth was obviously spose' to get caught out on, he outsmarts them, by playing funny buggers. I loved it. He's also an epileptic, we discover, this disability working to his advantage. We learn some interesting facts on epilepsy, and it's effects if mixed with this lethal drink, Roth's drunk, where a famous artist is referred as told by Michael Parks, always great, as a psychiatrist. In one violent scene, Roth explodes under pressure and begins throttling Rooker. These two cops have their own demons, Penn a gambler, Rooker, an old acquaintance of the dead hooker. Roth knows all the background of these cops, as we can see how this fits into the story, also as in Roth's plan of deception. Roth has ties with Penn's gambling friends where money can buy information. As Roth tells them "I'm filthy rich, loaded". We even have one imaginary scene in a rich dining room with Roth and his parents. They're seated, at one end of this long, table, Roth sitting at other. Obviously from this, we get the gist he's not on social grounds with his parents, or, he's just an isolated child. It's a funny scene due to some of Roth's dialogue, where he gets up, goes to his mother and stabs her, then sits back down and continues buttering his bread, some blood merging with the butter on the knife. Roth makes this movie, enjoyably entertaining, that you wouldn't want another actor to fill this character's shoes. He's so funny in many scenes, being smug and grinning loud. The relationship between Rooker and his wife (Rosanna Arquette) who's just scenery in this movie was just puzzling, like an enigma. Like Roth, Rooker flashes out too, one weird scene in Rooker's kitchen. What the hell what that about. Things become quite heated as the film comes to wraps, with Rooker even being putting on the stand. When Rooker, is questioned as to killing Loftas, he can't answer. This movie never loses it's fire, right, up to the end, and it's killer twist. I never found any bit of the movie boring. It's solid background story is great in one hell of an underrated movie. Ellen Burstyn, as evil auntie Mook, who runs the gambling operation, where Penn's indebted to them, rules. Whatever happened to that really nice mother/actress she played the Exorcist.

..with celebrities such as Tim Roth, Renee Z, and Chris Penn...I have the answer. This movie was beyond horrible. The blatant anachronisms are never explained, the "twist" was anything but...and well, shoot (imdb wouldn't allow me to say spell out a different word..even when i tried to use alternative spelling-huh, what a family friendly site!), folks..save your dollar and/or time and don't bother. I'm also adding text here because my initial review was very brief--I attempted to just tell you'll that this movie stinks...but apparently I have to go on. and on. and on. so once again, don't see this movie. it stinks. it stinks.P.S. don't believe reviewers that tell you must be intelligent to "get" this movie. if you don't get it, it's because the movie failed miserably. period. period.

This film has a very simple story, a murder is committed with only one suspect and the police are using a lie detector to try and prove he did it. The film is interesting mainly due to the performance of Roth as the suspect who is determined to prove his innocence, whether true or not, by whatever means necessary.This is a dark and smart film with both Roth and Rooker giving excellent performances. The pace is quick with tense interrogations being broken up by flashbacks and background showing a little of the problems faced by each character.The ending is a little off, it is too convenient and not as good as the rest of the writing. A good if flawed film.

An extremely dirty movie. Everything is dirty: a horrid crime where the victim is a prostitute and the main suspect is a rich young epileptic with no moral boundaries who drinks drugs down with absinthe. The investigation is led by a gambler and a man haunted by his own dark ghosts, threatening to destroy his marriage. The operator's work is also dirty, the picture is dark, people's faces reveal more and more animalistic features of their owners, turning the all in monsters by the end of the film. The investigation spiraling out of control reveals increasingly dirty details of the case. The end is shocking in it's cruelty. This movie may be crossing a moral verge of our perception of "dirt", making us watch it till the end never taking our eyes off the screen. It reaches it's goad - we become engrossed in the "dirt", seduced by it's dark appeal. An exquisitely dirty movie.