When you're in this world, no one is who they seem, and everyone is playing the game.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| 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 |
| Made in | 2008 |
| Produced by | Seed Productions, RIfkin-Eberts, Media Rights Capital |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Small | Medium | Large | Scroll down for embedded trailer
| Genre | Thriller |
| Language | Strong |
| Nudity | Some |
| Sex | Strong |
| Violence | Some |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Moderate suspense and threat in thriller with adult themes. |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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Frightening / Tense Scenes |
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Tense Family Scenes |
| Music (Scary/Tense) |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith | 5 |  |
| Sunday Times Barry Ronge | 5 | |
| 24.com Donna 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. | 5 | |
| eye Weekly Stuart Berman Deception swiftly devolves into another cyber-heist flick where the action amounts to typing in passwords and waiting for files to download. | 5 | |
| ReelViews 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. | 8 |  |
| ScreenItMediocre 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. | 8 | |
| Metacritic.com 23 critics | 6 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 78 critics | 8 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Deception is a middling, predictable potboiler with mediocre dialogue and ludicrous plot twists. | 2 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 1154 Netizens I would say it is good, but.... very similar to 'Bad Influence' | 12 |  |
Average .. 32% | 6 | |