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Production Year: 2000 - Thriller - Director: John Frankenheimer - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over more

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Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) is a small-time car thief about to be released from jail in time for Christmas. When his cellmate, Nick, is suddenly killed, Rudy decides to take on his...
more...identity in order to meet Nick's beautiful pen-pal girlfriend, Ashley (Charlize Theron). The couple has fun until her psychotic brother, Gabriel (Gary Sinise), shows up. Gabriel and his gang want to hold up a casino where Nick had once worked, and they blackmail Rudy/Nick into going along with the scheme. Rudy has to bluff his way through the crime, pretending to be Nick in order to avoid being killed while trying to sabotage the plans of the bad guys. Will Rudy be able to outsmart the bad guys, or will he end up facedown in the snow





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Deceptive
A review by Mark999 on Deception DVD
March 25th, 2001


Author's product rating:   Deception DVD - rated by Mark999

Did you enjoy it? Indifferent to it 
Story Very ordinary 
Characters / Performances Unmemorable 
Special Effects Standard 
How does it compare to similar films? Unmemorable 

Advantages: Ben Affleck
Disadvantages: Weak characters, not enough action .

Recommend to potential buyers: no 

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The only person that comes out of this film with any credit is Ben Affleck. What ever possesed Gary Sinise to take the part of a long haired lorry driver, on a first time heist, is beyond me. Ben Affleck puts a lot of energy in to his role and has the viewer routing for him, but I couldn't care less about the other charecters.
The idea for the story is pretty good and the final twist is wasted on the 90 minutes that preceeded it. Unfortunately, this is one of those videos that looks really good on the video cover and the right up on the back cover, but fails to deliver. 
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How does it compare to others by the same director? Unmemorable 
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