Deception is not the cool, noirish thriller it tries to be. Despite a cast that includes double-crossers Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor and Michelle Williams caught in the middle, the film is a yawn.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
To his credit, Langenegger keeps things relatively simple instead of resorting to lots of fast cutting and fancy camera angles. To his detriment, the picture he has made barely moves at all. This no-style style isn't restraint; it's a kind of indifference to filmmaking.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
To succeed, Deception requires viewers to be both inattentive and stupid. 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.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
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."Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Deception is another example of when genre-fication (the forcing of otherwise intriguing stories into the straitjackets of horror, thriller or other genres) reduces our entertainment to head-shaking banality.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Mark Olsen
Deception would be laughably bad if it weren't so rotely inert.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Everything is wrong pretty much from the start of this misbegotten adventure.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
The movie actually does feel like an Americanized work of Hong Kong moviemaking. But the desperate, derivative style, the nonsense plotting, and leggy, horny women are applied like too much MSG.Read Full Review »
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