I saw the movie Deception last night. Here is a blurb from Movie-web.com:
An accountant (McGregor) is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend (Jackman). But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman’s disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
I can see the underling pitching this to the movie executives: “Powerful men, hot and sexually valuable women, gratuitous strip club scene, money, money, money, and well, Deception!”
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And how will this be done? Oh, you know, the usual way – the movie is thoroughly formulaic.
I sat in the theater like a chorus director: “Okay, and now this has to happen, and now this…”
Twenty minutes into the movie I thought, “Can I go now?” But no, I couldn’t go. I paid $9 for this crap.
Good thing I got the $1 student discount. $10 for crap would have pissed-me-the-fuck-off.
So I sat there for almost two hours waiting for the clunky plot devices to finish. And just in case anyone missed anything the movie dropped hints with the grace of a bitch-slap, “LOOK AT THIS. THIS IS IMPORTANT. HERE: ANOTHER SHOT. DO YOU REMEMBER THIS FROM 10 MINUTES AGO? CLUE! CLUEE! CLUEEEEE!”
Okay, we get it bubba, damn.
- A more mature and thorough version of the above can be found here.
- A 62-year-old Charlotte Rampling has about 5 minutes in the movie.
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