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Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

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

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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

As a fan of Hugh Jackman, I eagerly watched the film "Deception," a 2008 film also starring Ewan McGregor and Michelle Williams.The film concerns a hard-working accountant, Jim McQuarry (McGregor) who is living a rather sterile life doing audits sometimes long into the night without much else going on. He meets a charismatic, handsome attorney, Wyatt Bose (Jackman) who introduces him to the joys of a sex club. When Jim ends up with Wyatt's phone by mistake, he's introduced the "The List" of anonymous sex -- and falls hard for one of the women, whom he knows only as S because of her key chain.Before he knows it, Jim is a suspect in a murder and the subject of threats."Deception" is extremely derivative though well done with its dark atmosphere. It's easy to figure out and also preposterous in parts. I love how writers just gloss over a plot point -- a critical one -- like it's nothing, leaving a hole a Mac truck could drive through. I mean, this is a spoiler but - how the heck did Jim get that passport? Actually how did Wyatt get his - not an easy thing post-9/11. I'll give you Wyatt's passport, he had the right connections. But Jim's? Sorry, I couldn't buy it.I've seen Hugh Jackman on Broadway in A Steady Rain, that Peter Allen bio musical, and his one-man show. The man can do anything. He's gorgeous, buff, charming, sexy, a fine Broadway singer, funny and warm. But some of his film choices have been disappointing. He coproduced this one, and I fail to see what attracted him to it. He is very good and scary as hell - granted, a great part for him - but this film is truly beneath him. Ewan McGregor's Scottish burr kept coming out.The entire cast list is that of top-notch performers - I won't say it's not worth seeing, it's okay for what it is. But what it isn't is a great film worthy of the abilities of everyone involved.

The movie starts off well really really well. Two great (and good looking) actors meeting at work and smoking pot - the implausibility of the scene makes you wonder if this film is going to be full of treats like this. As the plot unfolds you wonder in good but not great scenes you wonder if this is film is going to a pull a Woody Allen off dealing with a subsection of NY society. The you hope it least has a decent statement on sexuality and casual sex or at least "high" society. By the time the thriller part starts you hope at least it makes a decent thriller. However it fails at even this and if you are still interested in the film you finally give all hope of it ever becoming anything other than a promising but poorly directed forgettable film.

I don't recall in recent times having seen a movie that got me as mad as this one. Yes, it's a TERRIBLE movie, but with the particularity of being so dumb, that you could not escape feeling furious. If it were only bad, that would have been bad enough but acceptable, in some cases even respectable. But this one was a nasty joke thrown at your face, a charade, an ugly farce.The beginning is very promising, even spectacular. You sit down, relaxed, with a drink in your hand, and start being pulled into a world of mystery and strange sexual schemes, and you think WOW!... finally something out of the ordinary, something that feels going deep into the dark side. And with excellent actors too. And you keep watching, fully enthusiastic, until you slowly realize that the plot you found so astonishing is after all just some minor side story, not even very important to the REAL plot, and that the REAL plot, a game of stupid uninteresting blackmail and computer burglary, is actually the main dish and you can't believe it. What about the OTHER plot, the good one, the one I was digging? HELP! I WANT IT BACK!What's going on? How can they do something like that? You are shown a deer but are fed the horns? And then it drags on and on into no man's land, everything so boring, so "for the McDonald's family", so full of the typical Hollywood crap, bla, bla, bla...And finally the ending, truly the worst I ever saw. They were even given the rare privilege of minimizing the damage with some twisted final, but no sir, it had to be one of those "mass audience bullshit" endings with a gun (two actually) and the bad guy dying and the good guy living and getting the ravishing girl that was bad but not that bad that turned out good after all.The UTTER DECEPTION! Good to feed the dogs with!