Deceiver (1997)

I watched a friend's copy of Deceiver the other night. It was entertaining, but I could have used more time to follow some of the twists near the end. It left me with a feeling of dissatisfaction because of that. It was slow paced in the extreme early on, but well done, so I didn't mind it. However, about 7/8ths of the way in the script writer suddenly thought "Oh shit, I gotta swing this bus around quick or we ain't making the turn!" Combine the sudden turns at the end with the fairly hint-free earlier portions, and you can't go back and see where you could have picked up on the twists, had you only known. Part of the fun is go back and review the things that slipped by on your first viewing, which you can do with The Sixth Sense, for instance. It could have been something that the filmmakers chose not to do, but I suspect it's that way simply due to poor editing.

Deceiver (1997)