Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Boring, long, and too preachy.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

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.

Well, it can be truly horrifically bad, as in "Battlefield Earth". Or it can be stupidly cheaply exploitatively bad, as in "Attack of the Giant Leeches". Or, it can be painfully embarrassingly bad as in "Face the Music". "Deceived" is innovative in that it creates a new kind of bad, cheap certainly but in a preachy posing altruisticaly bad way. It's as if the actors, most of whom are at least competent, sacrifice themselves for the good of the cause, saying words and performing actions that must have caused their thespian guts to wring themselves inside out. Still they trooped on and we have the result. There's enough camp to make it watchable, sort of, and of course with this kind of thing there's always curiousity about just how far down the road to "Plan 9..." it will go. The answer is quite a ways.

"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.

Cloud Ten has made some pretty decent films in the past such as the Apocolypse Series, which I actually enjoyed, but this film is pure garbage. Thank God I didn't pay full price for it ( I auctioned it off of ebay for around $10.00). This movie should be number one in the "Worst Movies of All Time". The storyline is so retarded. If you don't want to waste your time and money, do yourself a favor and avoid seeing this film. -1/10