Video Review

Deception (1994)

EW's GRADE
D

Details Movie Rated: PG-13; Genres: Action/Adventure, Romance; With: Andie MacDowell and Liam Neeson

Take one part Romancing the Stone, one part The Third Man, boil into an lumpy mass, and serve warmed over: That's the recipe for Deception, a tired romantic adventure. Andie MacDowell plays a dumb-bunny housewife who turns brilliant detective when her rat of a husband mysteriously dies abroad. Liam Neeson is a globe-trotting altruist whose main function is to gaze at our heroine with woozy admiration. With any luck, the success of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Schindler's List means these two can afford to be choosier about scripts. D

Originally posted Jun 03, 1994 Published in issue #225 Jun 03, 1994 Order article reprints

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