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DECEPTION Send This Review to a Friend
What begins intriguingly gets increasingly unbelievable and ends even more so. The intended thriller “Deception, ’ directed by Marcel Langenegger, casts Hugh Jackman as villainous Wyatt Bosse and Ewan McGreggor as naïve Jonathan McQuarry, an accountant hired to audit the books of some high powered companies in Manhattan. Bosse comes on as a hot-shot lawyer taunting McQuarry for his lack of sexual adventures and takes him on a tour of strip joints to whet his appetite. It doesn’t take much for an audience to wonder whether the braggart Bosse is who is supposed to be.
When McQuarry finds that he has Bosse’s cell phone, hardly an accident, although he thinks it is, he gets mysterious calls saying “Are you free tonight?” When he finally accepts an invitation, McQuarry discovers that he has entered an exclusive sex club with women, some of them in top jobs, who are looking for no-names-given sex. Taking advantage of the situation, he begins to get plenty. Finally a good use for a cell phone.
But not really. It is clear the McQuarry is being set up, especially when a woman whom he once saw in the subway (and is fantasizing about as potentially true love) turns up as a date in the club. Naïve as he is, he still wants to turn the date with S (Michelle Williams) into romance.
The script by screenwriter Mark Bombeck gets more complicated as McQuarry learns to be more devious to match or best Bosse. “Deception” may sound interesting, but it never delivers as a film with characters and actions that are believable enough at moments when they need to be. A Twentieth Century Fox release.
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