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Jonathan (Ewan McGregor) is an awkward, reserved accountant who feels that life just passes him day after day. He loves problem solving, puzzles and numbers but that doesn’t really get him any, if you catch my drift. He meets charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman) and gets thrown into a world of sex and sex and more sex. Jonathan gets addicted to The List but he doesn’t really know for sure what he’s getting himself into.
I first learned about this movie during my first day of work when I passed by McDonalds to get myself some good ol’ sausage mcmuffin with egg. I got Sunday’s newspaper and saw two of the three men who introduced the meaning of lust to me: Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman (the last member of my three lust-inducing men group is none other than Johnny Depp) Having these two men in the same frame, in the same movie was enough to give me multiple orgasms. Haha yeah, that’s right.
Needless to say I was able to watch it the next weekend with a good friend of mine. Like most women, there are only two things I’d like to see men in. A good pair of boxers and a suit. (not both at the same time mind you) I was used to seeing Hugh Jackman’s body, I’ve practically memorized every curve, every bulge (of course not!) but Ewan McGregor has always been a girly crush. Sure I’ve seen his little ding-dong in a fleeting scene in Trainspotting, seen him make rough/sweet love with Scarlett in The Island, seen him get ravaged by Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge but what I feel for Ewan McGregor is more of a squealy, I-want-to-hugz-you type of feeling. He’s so boyish it’s just criminal. So I suppose it’s understandable that when I saw him in his glasses, his awkward hair and his slumped posture, I squealed like a high school girl and grabbed the nearest thing that I could squeeze. In that situation, it was my friend’s arm.
“Easy, Nicole… easy”
“But… But…!! OH MAH GAWD!! *pants*”
Setting all my girlish fantasies aside and to look at the movie critically, Deception had a good plot going for it. You know that it meant well but it’s just not that expertly executed. In this kind of movie genre, your success rests solely in your ability to put down clues small enough to keep the audience guessing but big enough to plant seeds of doubt. The problem with Deception is that the clues it presented practically gave away the secret. They were too big and too obvious that by the middle part of it, you already know what’s going to happen and how it’s going to happen.
Though I admit, they got me with Wyatt’s identity. I really believed him to be what he is at first. Young, successful lawyer who gets laid on a regular basis. I just thought that he would be a young, successful lawyer who swindles people and takes their money through an articulate form of cheating. I didn’t imagine he was a con artist. When Jonathan starts looking for Wyatt and finds that no one knew him, I was like “Oh holy shit!!”
In conclusion, the movie was okay. Not that spectacular considering its intended genre, there are a lot of movies with better execution. But having Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman in the same goddamn frame is something I would want to see again!
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Michelle Williams you are too lucky!
OMG! It’s Maggie Q! HAWT!
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