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When you advertise an erotic thriller and then give us a comedy, that's deception in any language.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Deception
When you're in this world, no one is who they seem, and everyone is playing the game.
2008 · 1h 47m · R
Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Marcel Langenegger
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Deception
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Marcel Langenegger Director
- Ewan McGregor as Jonathan McQuarry
- Hugh Jackman as Wyatt Bose
- Michelle Williams as S
- Natasha Henstridge as Simone Wilkinson
- Charlotte Rampling as Wall Street Belle
- Bruce Altman as Lawyer #1
- Andrew Ginsburg as Lawyer #2
- Stephanie Roth Haberle as Assistant Controller
- Dante Spinotti as Herr Kleiner / Mr. Moretti
- Karolina Muller as Waitress
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
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Rotten
There's not a twist in this flimsy and moth-eaten plot that isn't both contrived and transparent and not a character who hasn't been hopelessly manipulated by the needs of the narrative.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten
Everything is wrong pretty much from the start of this misbegotten adventure in Adrian Lyne territory, including but not limited to the strained mind games that drive the plot, and the tentative New York accents on the actors from Australia and Scotland.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
It's as if they took a Hitchcock movie and dropped the style and IQ level about 85 percent.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
A would-be erotic thriller with no heat and zero chills, Deception has the kind of glassy, glossy sheen and risible story that mean to suggest Basic Instinct but instead invoke lesser laughers like Jade and Sliver.
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
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