Sameer Callahan
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Anoushka Slater
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Tobias Burrows
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
buffalo-52017
I happened across this movie on TV today and it seemed kind of quirky so I decided to watch it. It reminded me a lot of The Usual Suspects, with a cagey suspect brought in for questioning in a murder and flashback scenes to illustrate the story. Tim Roth is outstanding, and Renee Zellwegger is pretty amazing in this drama. Has a very definite noir quality to it. I recommend it highly, even though I wasn't able to see the last 10 minutes so don't know what the ending was like. But that just gives me incentive to find it and watch it again!
generationofswine
You need to first give a shout out to the cast, they all did a great job...But the best part of the film was the setting, the bulk of the movie is in an interrogation room with Tim Roth strapped to a polygraph test and a web of lies that spin the story so that anyone in the room could have been guilty of the murder.It doesn't exactly keep you guessing, but it keeps the atmosphere tense and claustrophobic. It's a moody film, and an original one, two things that are sorely lacking in the films that have come out since the mid 2000s.You are just not going to see great movies that are character driven, movies that don't need a staggering amount of special effects to keep you on the edge of your seat. Deceiver keeps you engrossed from start to end on dialogue and characters.There are plot holes, easier to see in a film that relies on the story and characters to drive it, but far less than the CGI extravaganzas that rely on computer animation to dazzle you into forgetting that there is little substance and less story.Take a few minutes to watch it, you haven't seen that many movies like it before and probably will never see movies like it again...that is not unless we abandon out culture of dumb.
Jazzminxx
An extremely dirty movie. Everything is dirty: a horrid crime where the victim is a prostitute and the main suspect is a rich young epileptic with no moral boundaries who drinks drugs down with absinthe. The investigation is led by a gambler and a man haunted by his own dark ghosts, threatening to destroy his marriage. The operator's work is also dirty, the picture is dark, people's faces reveal more and more animalistic features of their owners, turning the all in monsters by the end of the film. The investigation spiraling out of control reveals increasingly dirty details of the case. The end is shocking in it's cruelty. This movie may be crossing a moral verge of our perception of "dirt", making us watch it till the end never taking our eyes off the screen. It reaches it's goad - we become engrossed in the "dirt", seduced by it's dark appeal. An exquisitely dirty movie.
birck
I'm giving this film a 6 stars because of the quality of acting and production right up to the last seven or eight minutes. It's a cat-and-mouse game between an elitist suspect and two proletarian cops, and at any given time, who is winning is determined by who can surprise whom with unexpected knowledge of his adversary's private life.As long as that is happening, the film is fine. Suspension of Disbelief was finally broken, close to the end, by one BIG script problem (spoiler coming): The suspect, a caucasian and an American citizen, supposedly dies during a police interrogation. But there's no autopsy. No autopsy? I DON'T THINK SO, GUYS! The dead character and his family may not be on good terms, but I think they would want to know why he died, and they got big bucks to swing it. So it's one of those films that works great right up to-but not including-the end, where it falls apart.
