omarab-32853 I personally enjoyed it, maybe it's not a 9/10 but it's really good Final seines are amazingVery good action thriller kind of movie, it exceeded my expectationsfun and twisty, and I usually know what is the end gonna be like in these kind of movies, but I didn't expect the ending not like that. Don't have anything else to say, but watch it and you will not be wasting your time at allThank for reading

hjames-97822 Another of my garage sale finds. I'm so pleased my total investment (loss) is limited to $1 and 2 hours.How could so many talented people have spent an estimated $42 million dollars on this hopeless and totally useless piece of junk? Film Tech 101--If you start out with a stupid story line, you will produce a stupid screenplay. Your stupid screenplay will flop no matter who the actors are trying to do the job.Suffice it to say that this is one of those films where you will appreciate having the fast forward button handy. If you don't walk away altogether. I know there are people out there who can't wait to see Ms. Theron in one of her usual silly sex romps. I can live without it. I would pay her extra to keep her clothes on for awhile. Her scene with Affleck is pornographic. That's cool, but you certainly don't need to attend university classes to pump on screen and there is no--no--way it should have cost $42 million to get to her swabbing Ben's mouth (literally) with her snaked tongue. I wanted to reach through the screen and pass Affleck a bottle of mouthwash.What is wrong with these people?

Prismark10 Reindeer Games known as Deception in Britain is John Frankenheimer's final theatrical film. Rather a shame that its a moderately thrilling film that was critically lambasted.As a thriller it has plenty of twists and turns but you always fear that there is something predictable about it and in some instances poor scripting does not help.Affleck is a carjacker doing his time. His cell mate is in a relationship with a pen pal who he intends to hook up with after getting out but dies just two days before they are both release.Affleck takes over his cell-mate's identity, hooks up with the pen pal who turns out to be the gorgeous Charlize Theron and after some good sex has a run in with her brother (Gary Sinise) and his gang who want him to rob a casino in a reservation where the cell-mate once worked at.Of course no one believes him when he protests that he is not who he pretends to be and he has no option but rob the casino that he knows nothing about. As its Christmas, six Santas go in to rob the casino.The plot has a lot of standard thriller concepts and you always anticipate a few twists and turns even those relating to the dead cell mate's ultimate motives as to why he wanted Affleck to hook up with Theron.The film kind of looks cheap, it was mainly shot in Canada. It has some scenes that do not make sense such as the actual Casino heist where the security guards are all over the place and even Dennis Farina firing rather aimlessly and wasting bullets.Therefore you rely on the actors to carry the film off. Sinise and Theron are good enough to keep you watching. Affleck is average but his character does enough to be likable. However Affleck is really not a strong enough actor, even now he is an actor who has mastered his limited range and his future does lie in directing.However I wish this film would had been a better send off for the conspiracy meister Frankenheimer.

Scarecrow-88 Unbelievably implausible action crime thriller where Affleck, the film's hero, seems to be the luckiest released convict on the planet considering how much time he spends with a gun pointed at him, always escaping a sure bullet to the head, must help a group of nasty, vile thugs (Gary Sinise, Danny Trejo, Clarence William III, and Donal Logue) rob the wintry casino of Dennis Farina (his recent death was the reason I watched this again, to tell you the truth). All of this comes about when Affleck (substituting for a man (played by James Frain) stabbed with a shiv in prison, who was his cellmate) meets the author (Charlize Theron) of letters pinned for Frain, read to him. Affleck himself fell in love with Theron through those letters, but it isn't long before he's accosted by Sinise's brood and expected to help them rob a casino. This film has two/three twists that challenge any existing credibility that remains left over from entire ridiculous sequences that rescue Affleck from certain death, and there are multiple, long-winded expository back-and-forths between heavies and Affleck endlessly explaining "Haha, I got you!" The last one involving Frain and Theron was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I could barely swallow the "James Bond" delays in killing off Affleck, with the film's villains finding convoluted means to bump him off just so the screenplay could allow him plenty of time to come up with an escape plan. All of this said, time has mellowed me quite a bit towards Affleck. I like him a lot now, and his performance in the film didn't bother me at all. He has some fun actors to work off of. Sinise lays it on mighty thick, but the part requires lots of psychopathic tendencies. Of course, Clarence seemed to remain in employment just because he could play with relative ease those cold-blooded heels that accompany the likes of Sinise's ringleader…he always had the look casting director's must relish when a human monster is required. Logue seems out of place if we look at his career after this particular film, while Trejo can just appear and convince as a bruiser willingly following this rogue's gallery of homicidal scumbags. Thankfully, Frankenheimer's direction has lots of energy and pizazz attempting to compensate for a screenplay that tests our tolerance for character stupidity. Theron, like she was in 2 Days in the Valley (1996), is a feast for the eyes and libido at this point in her career, but the twists regarding her ulterior motives as it pertains to the heist were just too much for me personally. She can play the bitch, though; there's no denying that. At least, the ending is gratifying in that all the criminals get their just desserts; and they all deserve what they get for being so dumb.