Review of Deceiver

Deceiver (1997)
6/10
Suspense almost to the end
10 October 2007
Warning: Spoilers
I'm giving this film a 6 stars because of the quality of acting and production right up to the last seven or eight minutes. It's a cat-and-mouse game between an elitist suspect and two proletarian cops, and at any given time, who is winning is determined by who can surprise whom with unexpected knowledge of his adversary's private life.As long as that is happening, the film is fine. Suspension of Disbelief was finally broken, close to the end, by one BIG script problem (spoiler coming): The suspect, a caucasian and an American citizen, supposedly dies during a police interrogation. But there's no autopsy. No autopsy? I DON'T THINK SO, GUYS! The dead character and his family may not be on good terms, but I think they would want to know why he died, and they got big bucks to swing it. So it's one of those films that works great right up to-but not including-the end, where it falls apart.
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