DECEPTION/SUITS MCGREGOR

Accountants take another hard rap in this thriller as a NY number cruncher, Ewan McGregor, indulges his latent sexy side only to find himself liable for stealing $20 million.

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Oh, and for murdering a girl he just met.

With McGregor playing the pencil pusher, the guy, no matter how hard he tries to be dull, is always going to have a slow burn going on.

In this case, he needs to get hot fast for his opponent is his flipside, Hugh Jackman, playing a suave corporate lawyer who seems to run NY city, starting with the keys to a little club called The List, a fantasy of decadence for Manhattan’s most libidinous executives, where the women are as loose as they are drop-dead gorgeous

"It’s a world of intimacy without intricacy", opines one of McGregor’s first dates and, warming to his task, he meets the beautiful Michelle Williams, known only as S, who entrances him one night, with words rather than flesh, and disappears the next.

Turns out flexible Jackman not only knows a thing or two about business and pretty women but violence too and McGregor finally has to use his computer in ways he has never dreamed of to save himself, the girl and the universe from a bad ending.

On the surface, Jackman has all the best lines, even getting to indulge in not one, but two over the top roles – flash lawyer and cunning criminal.

But McGregor has more fun, damping himself down into a geek that even his own mother be embarrassed to go out with, before discovering that there is life outside a calculator after all.

Deception opens nationwide April 25, 2008.

Posted April 25, 2008.