Shards - Mirror Of Deception

Deceptively Obvious

Advantages: It shows Hugh Jackman is willing to expand his range.
Disadvantages: Poor direction, contrived plotting, sub-standard performances and a lack of surprises.

so contrived. The way Jonathan and Wyatt meet is highly improbable; why would a high-powered lawyer randomly introduce himself to an auditor late at night and suggest they smoke a joint together in the office? Surely that alone would sound alarm bells for the accountant? But then for a woman he spots on the subway to turn up on The List adds up to one coincidence too many, even before she mysteriously disappears. Let's face it, as the film is called "Deception", we know it's highly unlikely that anyone is who they first appear to be and it makes it stupidly easy to spot the twists. The characterisation is pitiful. Jonathan and Wyatt are polar opposites just to make the contrast between them as great as possible. So while the former is an exceptionally dull accountant living the life of an office drone and with little going for him ...

afy9mab 14.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Deception (DVD)

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Advantages: Not absolutely awful.
Disadvantages: Clichéd storyline

Synopsis The film begins with a security guard running through an empty underground. He comes across a mirror and starts apologising to his reflection, but then suddenly it seems like he's not talking to himself, he's talking to the mirror. He tries to clean the mirror but accidentally breaks it, then everything changes, his reflection is no longer following him, but picking up the shard of glass. As the reflection pulls the shard across its throat, a gaping wound begins to appear on the security guard's throat. Jump along an unspecified amount of time, and we meet Ben Carson, an ex police officer, who's just about to start his new job as a security guard/night watchman at a burnt out department store, which is awaiting insurance claims before work can start on refurbishment. Ben is estranged from his wife, Amy ...

Fiver29 08.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Mirrors (DVD)

Mirror, Mirror, ZZZZZZzzzzz

Advantages: Cough!
Disadvantages: It exists

During the American writers strike that affected every popular US television show, 24 star Kiefer Sutherland found that he had time to take up a movie role between series. Keen to return to the horror genre after the movies Flatliners, and The Lost Boys bought him worldwide fame the actor received the script for Alexandre Aja's (The Hills Have Eyes, Haute Tension) mirrors and quickly snapped up the opportunity. Mirrors sadly for Sutherland is not going to follow in the success of his previous dalliances into horror. Five years ago the Mayflower department store in the centre of New York suffered a terrible fire, but several years on the owners and the insurance company have still not settled over various issues in the insurance policy. Ben Carson (Sutherland) recently suspended from the police force (after accidentally shooting ...

sghawken 21.09.2008 · Read full review
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