Customer Reviews
A good action film. - By: DVD Fan, 05 Aug 2006 
This film seems to have gone almost un-noticed, not heard of it before but when I saw the cast, I thought it should be pretty good. Also known as Reindeer games on region 1. The story is that a guy released from prisoner meets his cellmates pen friend played by the beautiful Charlize Theron. She has never seen the guy she has been writing to so he decides to be him. However her violent brother turns up wanting to know alll about a casino he used to work in so he can rob it! So he now has to bluff what he knows because he has never worked there. There are some good ideas in the story & plot line although it does get a bit twisted towards the end. It has a slight low budget feel to it but overalll not bad for a rent but far from a classic. 6/10
well worth a watch - By: , 08 Jan 2005 
This is a much better film than I thought it would be. Charlize Theron is as beautiful as ever & the film does keep you guessing, which is rare these days.
Well worth buying
A Thriller Whodunnit Action Adventure rolled into one!!! - By: , 07 Sep 2002 Deception is a "Thriller" "Who dunnit" & "Action Adventure" rolled into one. It follows the misfortune of Rudy (Ben Affleck)as he is plunged into a dangerous scam to rob a Casino. It alll starts when Rudy's cellmate Nick arranges to meet his penpal Ashley when both he & Rudy get released from jail in three days time. Unfortunatly Nick gets killed. So when Rudy gets out he see's Nick's penpal waiting for him & he feels sorry for her. So he pretends to be Nick. Only Rudy grows to wish he hadn't, Ashley has an extremly aggressive criminal for a brother who has been reading Nick's letters. Unfortunatly for Rudy, in these letters Nick has described in detail how he used to work as a security guard at the Casino, & now Angie's brother won't let Rudy go until he has helped him rob the Casino. The trouble is Rudy has never seen the Casino before in his life............but if he doesn't help he knows it will be the end of his life & confessing that he's not reallly Nick is not an option. Ashley's brother's not the forgive & forget type. Watch how the action adventure unfolds, with more twists & turns than you can imagine.....!!!!!!!
You're definatly not in for a boring evening if you settle down with this!
Started well........ - By: , 04 Jul 2001 
....but unfortunately completely lost its way halfway through. This is a shame because they could have done so much with the story at the beginning, but the film is trying to be too clever for its own good with far too many implausible twists & turns, & after a while, you don't reallly care what happens. Also the unintentionallly hilariously bad acting, particularly by Gary Sinise, has to be seen to be believed.
A fast-paced action thriller with a twist! - By: , 27 Mar 2001 In this movie Ben Affleck plays Rudy a convict due for release. In a twist of fate Rudy takes his cell mates place in hooking up for the first time with Ashley (Rudy's cell mates pen pal). Everything from here on in is a case of Decieve or Decease! I love action movies & this one is a good one with plenty of action & pretty good acting from a well balenced cast.
