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Deception

When you're in this world, no one is who they seem, and everyone is playing the game.

You've lost a lot of weight since Dawson's....

Another tale of cross and double-cross, intended to keep the audience guessing. A shy and lonely accountant meets a successful lawyer, and they inadvertently swap cellphones. The accountant discovers that the lawyer belongs to an anonymous sex club, and he is soon swept up in the action. However he starts falling for one of the women, only for her to disappear, and he to be blackmailed to keep her safe. He decides to investigate, but all is not what it seems...

107 minutes, No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Nudity, Violence)
Drama, Romance, Thriller.

Credits

Cast

Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle WIlliams, Lisa Gay Harden, Maggie Q, Natasha Henstridge, Lynn Cohen, Danny Burstein

Director

Marcel Langenegger

Screenplay

Mark Bomback

Music

Ramin Djawadi

Cinematography

Dante Spinotti

Editing

Douglas Crise, Christian Wagner

Sound formats

Dolby Digital

Soundtrack

Not available

Made in

2008

Produced by

Seed Productions, RIfkin-Eberts, Media Rights Capital

SA Distributor

Nu Metro

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Thriller
Language	Strong
Nudity	Some
Sex	Strong
Violence	Some
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy
Drug abuse
Comments	Moderate suspense and threat in thriller with adult themes.
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity

Violence

Blood / Gore / Gross

Guns /
Weapons

Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs

Smoking

Disrespectful /
Bad Attitude

Imitative Behaviour

Frightening /
Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes

Tense Family Scenes

Music (Scary/Tense)

Music (Inappropriate)

Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)

South African Media

Cape Argus/The StarTheresa Smith

Sunday TimesBarry Ronge

24.comDonna Cooper Die-hard thriller fans, will guess the plot way ahead of time and it's slightly annoying to watch poor Jonathan plod his way along, oblivious to the depths of skullduggery taking place.

International Media

eye Weekly (Canada)Stuart Berman Deception swiftly devolves into another cyber-heist flick where the action amounts to typing in passwords and waiting for files to download.

ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli The most infuriating thing about this movie is that the filmmakers seem to believe they're actually being clever and there's a chance viewers won't figure out the truth about Wyatt and S before those details are explicitly revealed.

ScreenIt (USA) Mediocre but otherwise coming off like a copycat sordid thriller wannabe that might have been made in the 1980s to profit off the success paved by the likes of Eszterhas and Lyne, Deception doesn't live up to its descriptive title.

Metacritic.com23 critics

RottenTomatoes.com78 critics

RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer Deception is a middling, predictable potboiler with mediocre dialogue and ludicrous plot twists.

Internet (IMDB)1154 Netizens I would say it is good, but.... very similar to 'Bad Influence'

Average .. 32%

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