Review by Rachel Chan Suet Kay
Deception takes in the tradition of art films where events happen to obscure the viewer. Accountant Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) is lonely and stuck in a nearly 24 hour routine managing accounts for big fishes, when ‘lawyer’ Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman) saunters in, as charming as the devil, into his unvaried life. As devils do, Bose offers McQuarry a deal he can’t resist. The high life, games of tennis with model-lookalikes, free use of 4000 USD suits, and the opportunity to get the girl. “Unsuspectingly” exchanging his phone with McQuarry, Bose claims the need to leave town for “anarchy in the UK” for dealings with a businessman which McQuarry later on finds out isn’t all there. McQuarry gets sucked into the fast paced dating game with sex and no attachments – even to find out in hindsight that he ‘did’ one of Wall Street’s top analysts. Such is the orderly world of the underground sex club inhabited by corporate figures whose time consuming lives demands no foreplay, and certainly no morning affection. Taking the train, McQuarry is also drawn to a strange beauty who questions him about the correct station. Later on he finds himself assigned anonymously to this very same heartbreaker. They break some rules such as the no names policy, and almost commits the sin of “business talk”. This would be the ultimate downfall of at least three of the major plot players in this story. Business talk aside, eventually McQuarry, in a tender outpouring of love, is stricken with horror as he realises that both his and the mysterious girl (only known as ‘S’) lives are in danger. 
At the same time, Wyatt Bose, or so he claims to be, “returns” into McQuarry’s life. Unknowingly, McQuarry had earlier rattled off to Bose about “his breaking the rules” with S (Michelle Williams). Then it transpires that Bose is not what he seems to be. At all. His life turns out to have been a series of frauds – and McQuarry is caught up in the latest of them. Watch this film to find out who the real deceptor is – and it is not an easy game to figure out. 
Ratings: 4/5 Trailer:
