dbborroughs Review of Lies & Illusions

Lies & Illusions (2009)

The cast is great, the rest should have been better

[6/10 · 16 August 2009]

Christian Slater plays a successful writer who's fiancé goes missing. She was taken away by baddie Cuba Gooding Jr who thinks she stole several million dollars in diamonds from him not to mention a list of his contacts through the world. With the girl gone and believed dead even by Gooding, the focus of the hunt turns to Slater who has no idea of his fiancé's past, despite the insistence of everyone that he does. Uneasy mixing of comedy and drama lessens what should have been a good action thriller. I blame the director who takes an A-1 cast and runs them around in a film that feels like a lesser TV movie. Certainly this film is no where near as good as Slater's recent failed TV series My Own Worst Enemy. This film should have worked better. I kept thinking that I should have loved this instead of just liking it. It is worth seeing,, I think you'll probably be amused, but its the sort of thing you're going to want to see on cable because its just not worth paying money to see.