Deceiver

1997

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 42% · 31 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 7510 7.5K

Director

Top cast

Renée Zellweger as Elizabeth
Tim Roth as Wayland
Rosanna Arquette as Mrs. Kennesaw
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935.6 MB
1280*546
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
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1.88 GB
1920*820
English 5.1
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Maziun 7 / 10

Underrated thriller

This movie is a hidden treasure . A clever and dark psychological thriller . It reminds me of a movie that David Fincher ("Se7en") would have made if he was in shape . "The Liar" or "The Deceiver" as the movie is sometimes known is an intriguing movie that keeps you at the edge of your seat. This is an example of movie in which you can have three people talking in one room and you can't take your eyes off screen.The movie is really dark and full of tension. You can never know what will happens next and what dark secret will be revealed. You must figure out for yourself what is true and what is lie.Tim Ruth is great as the main hero (?) who toys with other people minds. He is really one strange guy. Chris Penn gives a really good support in a rather standard role of not too bright cop. The real star here is Michael Rooker who is AMAZING . His performance deserves an Oscar. You have to see it for yourself. Renee Zellweger and Ellen Burstyn also give quite memorable performances.Good movie . A hidden treasure . I give it 7/10.
Reviewed by stanbldr 7 / 10

A tense drama that has an interesting perspective

Reviewed by donaldking 5 / 10

badly flawed high baroque murder thriller

This has hints of Abel Ferrara about it (esp. the welcome appearance of the late and lamented Chris Penn from Ferrara's 'The Funeral.') I've seen this twice now, and am still not quite sure who really murdered Elizabeth. It doesn't really matter, I suppose, but there's a sense here in which style predominates a bit too strongly over substance. Michael Rooker & Tim Roth overact a bit - so the steadying presence of Chris Penn is helpful here. I'd liked to have known more about Roth's upbringing and so forth than we're granted. The scenes of him with his parents & friends are some of the best - all that baloney with lie detectors in dimly lit rooms becomes a bit dreary after a while.

Nice to see 1) Michael Parks (one of the nastiest villains in Twin Peaks) - here confirming one's idea that psychiatrists and psychologists are easily more strange and conflicted than their patients, and 2) Mark Damon - most famous in American cinema from Roger Corman's Fall of the House of Usher way back in 1960! Worth an outing if you should ever get bored with the Pittsburgh Penguins, but hardly worth all the effort you need to expend in an attempt to 'work out the story.' (By the way, are all American police really like this?)

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