Deception From:Hugh Jackman , Ewan McGregor , Michelle Williams , Daniel Lugo , Charlotte Rampling , DECEPTION (DVD MOVIE) , 20th Century Fox ,
| 
See larger picture. | | Amazon Sales Rank:# 6742 User Rating: Customer Reviews List Price:$27.98 Amazon.com's Price:$16.99 Prices subject to change. You Save:$10.99 (39.28%) Availability:Usually ships in 24 hours |
|
|
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DECEPTION (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 0024543526216
Format: AC-3
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: Dubbed
Format: DVD-Video
Format: Subtitled
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
Weight: 20 hundredths-pounds
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 60 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 750 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 15 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-09-23
Running Time: 107 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Product Description:
An accountant is introduced to a mysterious, sex-dating club known as The List by his lawyer friend. He becomes enthralled in this new lifestyle, but he soon becomes the prime suspect in a womanâ??s disappearance and a multimillion-dollar heist.
Customer Reviews:
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Trying Oh So Hard to be Noir, 2008-11-28
With a cast like this, how could you go wrong? Well, start with a script so full of holes it would pass as a substitute for Swiss cheese and then add characters so incredibly one dimensional that they bore you to tears. Mix in a little passionless acting and you have a recipe for dud.
There is no depth here...not in the plot or the characters or the direction. It is clear that the director was trying very hard to create a modern day noir, but without firm characters and a believable plot (we won't even go into how implausible this is), all the smoldering stares, the pretty lighting and the nerdy accountant who meets incredibly appealing (verging on homoerotic in the first 20 minutes) con artist, come off incredibly flat and uninteresting.
For a really good movie on manipulation and deception and sexual tension, try "Apartment Zero" with Colin Firth and Hart Bochner, who (I kid you not) is absolutely brilliant as a charming dangerous man.
|
|
|
