Think of a romantic, handsome, versatile actor and somewhere in there would be Australian born Hugh Jackman, always the gentleman, as seen in Woody Allen’s Scoop with Scarlett Johansson and the romantic love interest of Meg Ryan in Kate and Leopold.

So to see him in the murdering role of Jamie Getz/Wyatt Bose in Deception comes as a bit of a shock only causing a girl’s pulse to beat faster with fright rather than passion!

Hugh, in this manipulating tantalizing role, is teamed up with Michelle Williams (partner of the deceased Heath Ledger) whom he takes from a street corner call girl to a pawn in his intriguing plot to secure $20 million from the bank account of a deceased millionaire associate.

William’s role is initially hard to read and comes across as slightly bland, along with the character of Jonathan McQuarry played by Ewan McGreger. Jonathan is an accountant who is befriended by Jackman who brings excitement to his otherwise boring life when he introduces him to a sex club known as The List. As the plot unravels Michelle, as ‘S’ becomes a deeper character than the movie first suggests.

Eventually, we are taken to a conclusion that is meant to be exotic, sexual and finally explains some of the strange camera shots of a leaky pipe along the way!

The last few moments of the movie, filmed in a park in Madrid, leave the cinema-goer with several unanswered questions, such as, where the hell is the $20 million?

ABB