SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

adonis98-743-186503 An accountant is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend. But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist. Deception is better that it usually gets credit for plus Hugh Jackman went totally against character by playing a bad guy in this film (years before his X-24 clone in Logan). Ewan McGregor and Michelle Williams were also very good in their roles and although slow this movie was more of a sex thriller than an action movie and it works 100%

SnoopyStyle Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) is a shy and lonely auditor moving from one office to the next. Late one night, he is befriended by charismatic Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman). They get their phones switched and Jonathan gets a call from a mysterious woman (Natasha Henstridge). He spends the night together with her. Next he meets an older woman (Charlotte Rampling) who explains the sex club rules. The next woman (Michelle Williams) is someone he has seen before and he's in love with her, believing her name starts with S. The next time they meet in a hotel. He's knocked out and S disappears. The blood stain is gone and he calls the police. Detective J. Russo (Lisa Gay Hamilton) has nothing to go on. He discovers that Wyatt is a fiction and he's blackmailed into stealing money from dirty accounts in the company. He gets a call from Tina (Maggie Q). She knows Wyatt as Jamie Getz who possibly killed investment banker Rudolph Holloway.There is one moment when this movie goes from intriguing to improbable. McQuarry picks up the phone and Russo's card. I kept thinking that he should call the cops and I was actually impressed that the movie would do exactly that. Instead of calling Russo, he impersonates Russo to get information from the cops. It's mind-boggling. Wyatt's threats boil down to hurting S but for all McQuarry knows, she's part of his scheme. So he does something illegal and easily trackable to save a woman he barely knows. Michelle Williams is gorgeous but I can't buy that she's that intoxicating. Nobody is Helen of Troy and nobody is that dumb. The plan is completely unlikely to work but the movie forces it to work. The final twist tries to salvage the movie by doubling down but it doesn't work. It's nice to see these actors but this is all about the plot points.

blanche-2 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.

sxjTheFirst 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.