Deceived (2002)
In a remote space observatory perched high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a needle frantically scratches erratic lines on a strip chart recorder confirming an extraterrestrial signal. Emmett Shaw, the powerful, charismatic billionaire who owns the observatory, rushes to the station, hungry to expose the discovery. This is the biggest moment in human history and he is the man responsible for it all. With the goal of immediately sharing the signal with the entire world, he brings along two leading journalists--Kara Walsh, an extremely attractive, top-notch investigative reporter who begrudgingly owes her career to Shaw, and Reverend Fletcher, a new age visionary with the hottest radio show in the country. Also accompanying Shaw is Jack Jones, a scruffy but brilliant computer technician whose pessimistic and often sarcastic attitude ruffles many feathers in the group--especially Smitty's, the program director, who happens to be Jack's ex-girlfriend and the only Christian in the group.
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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Boring
It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
This movie makes very little pretense about its purpose. It presents one dimensional characters in a situation where the characters wonder and bluster about different religious viewpoints. There is only one correct viewpoint, namely conservative evangelical.While the technical aspects of the movie seem to be above average, the writing is definitely not. The writing is predictable and dull which makes the acting even worse. The transitions in the story are jumpy. The devices used to create tension are much too obvious. One example should suffice. When the group is trying to decipher the mysterious signal, they find the signal pulses for 6.66 seconds. Obviously, this is supposed to point to the Satanic origin of the signal. In short, Deceived seems to be a cross between a sci-fi movie and an evangelistic meeting...and it fails as both.
Having seen almost all Cloud 10 Pictures movies I was looking forward to seeing this one after a relatively good trailer.The genre was so different than other C10 movies I have seen that it literally scared me for a while that they were trying to delve into sci-fi. I wasn't disappointed.Being a writer myself (and nearing my first publishing), I tend to be overly critical of the script. This one was an excellent idea that had some believability to it. Unfortunately, certain lines come out canned and the story drags on and on and on. Come on people... do something! FX are the best I've seen for a C10 movie (which isn't saying much), and I raised my rating from a 7 to an 8 just because of the flat panel monitor explosion scene. I am a geek, and those explosions were MAGNIFICENT. Poor monitors... I hope they were only blowing up shells and not the real $1500 models at the time.Acting was slightly above average, but it was the plot that kept me from shutting the movie off. The ending was WAY too fast, and there seemed to be little to no resolution, which was probably intentional.This is the first C10 film that has spooked me, props to Paul LaLonde for the story.I give it an optimistic 8.
"Deceived" is a pretty good title, since most sci-fi fans would be just that -- deceived by a thinly-disguised and abominably-acted piece of so-called "Christian drama" by a purely "Christian Production Company."It was fairly obvious early on where this one was heading, and awful as it had been thus far, I thought I'd stick it out strictly from curiosity. Big mistake.As even most Christians with any taste will admit, the only thing worse than "Christian music" is "Christian films." Think of this little stinker as the film equivalent of a Jack Chick comic-book tract, only you find it wasting space in a video store rather than stuck in a phone booth or a men's lavatory. The Bible-thumping contingent will of course love this film for the same reason the other 95% of us will be bored -- the cooked-to-death preachiness wherein the power of prayer replaces the cavalry to the rescue.
As a fan of the Cloud Ten apocalyptical movies I expected more of the same. Unfortunately, this one did not live up to the others both in story and in production values. The story and therefore the sets were limited, with opportunities missed to branch out from what the observatory really was experiencing.The final scene gives the opportunity for a sequel. I say don't bother and lets have more from the O.N.E stories.