The success of thrillers like this one depends heavily on skillfully handled smoke and mirrors, but Deception's predictable plot turns won't really deceive anyone.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 6, 2018

As the double-crosses come thick and fast, it's hard to retain much curiosity about or sympathy for any of the film's duplicitous protagonists.

| Nov 6, 2018

When sex (and mystery) gives way to a multimillion-dollar heist (and explanations), the whole thing just gets silly. Sexy fun for a while, though.

| Nov 6, 2018

The difference between a decent thriller and Deception is that a good thriller at least tries to keep you guessing with a few twists and turns.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2018

When you advertise an erotic thriller and then give us a comedy, that's deception in any language.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Oct 18, 2008

An indigestible concoction of ingredients thrown together without the benefit of any serious consideration of logic.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2008

It is about as erotic as a midweek National Express coach journey to Hitchin.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2008

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.

| Original Score: D | Apr 30, 2008

It's as if they took a Hitchcock movie and dropped the style and IQ level about 85 percent.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2008

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 25, 2008

Despite a cast that includes double-crossers Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor and Michelle Williams caught in the middle, the film is a yawn.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2008

The inevitable absurdities and coincidences of the plot are easy enough to accept along the way, except perhaps for the sex club, which is just a little too absurd to function as a plot device.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2008

Everyone, including Madrid, looks terrific, but Deception delivers on no other level, except perhaps as a guide to various New York hotel rooms.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 25, 2008

An overwrought and ultimately silly thriller.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2008

Is there anything more boring than watching $20 million being electronically trans ferred to an offshore bank account? Maybe it's someone repeatedly barking 'You have no idea what I'm capable of!' into a cellphone.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 25, 2008

Every actor has a few titles on his résumé that he'd love to forget. So should you ever have the opportunity to meet Deception stars Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor, we highly recommend you pretend this movie was never made.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 25, 2008

Deception would be laughably bad if it weren't so rotely inert.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 25, 2008

Deception is one of those films that leave you feeling vaguely dirty and wholly unsatisfied, a distasteful and wholly unbelievable mix of soft porn and obvious duplicity that holds not one ounce of emotional truth.

| Original Score: D | Apr 25, 2008

Deception recalls the fantasies of Showtime's soft-core series Red Shoe Diaries. It's often tastefully laughable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2008

What can compare with the white-knuckle suspense of uploading a file?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 25, 2008