The show stops where it started. The horrible intro cartoon. Apparently they didn't have a budget to lead into the film gracefully or they took a time machine to 1962 or they needed the extra time to make the film go 90 minutes. Regardless, what a pile of crap. I've seem YouTube videos with more inspiring dialog, logic, and emotion. The entire film appears to have been filmed in a matter of days in a 1 block area. The thing they did was change the direction of the shots. I love how wounds changed shape, size, and location as the camera changed position. BTW a case of Monsters or the DT's and cameramen do not mix. perhaps the shaking camera was an homage to early Simpsons episodes. After all that we get an entertaining Matrix/Hidden Dragon moment in the Bar. It's as if they couldn't put enough crap in one film. Near the end of this travesty one can tell that Slater doesn't really care anymore and mails this bad boy in. His dialog is bad, his body just seems to not want to work in this turd of a film.One need only look at the Director of this flick, Tibor Takács to see why this is such a failure. Why he's directed such classics as Mansquito, Ice Spiders, Kraken: tentacles of the deep, and my personal favorite MEGASNAKE. How could he miss on this tripe with 2 actors that supposedly know how acting actually works? Maybe the cast just said screw it they've paid me, I cashed the check, and now I have to finish this, but I don't have to like it.

Now I know what you guys want. You want reviews that bash the living turd out of this movie. But I'm afraid I can't do that for you. You think you know what you're going to get with this movie. Judging by Slater's face in the cover art you immediately think "Oh god, another piece of crap." But oh no. This movie blew me away, the sheer raw emotion portrayed by Slater is moving. You really get a feel for how stunned and in awe when he was re united with his wife after 2 years. "You were 'sposed to be dead" 10/10. I gave this a 9 cause I want the honour of my 10 to only go to a class film like Legion. S - Stupendous. L - Lingering in my mind. A - All out action. T - Tantalisingly great. E - Electrifying R - Raw emotion.

We live in Spokane. Several years ago, we happened to be downtown during some of the car-chase 'action' scenes - streets blocked off, etc. Was fun to see it all happening - we were really looking forward to seeing the movie. Well, we finally watched it last night...one of the worst movies I've ever seen!!! Bottom line: 1. The movie is awful on all accounts - don't waste your time; 2. Spokane is a beautiful city with awesome surroundings. We hope your travel plans allow you to visit our fair city some time.p.s.: if you want to see Spokane painted in a much better light, see "The Contract" with Morgan Freeman.

As other reviewers have indicated, I am posting this review solely to (hopefully) prevent others from making the mistake my husband and I did when we rented it - wasting 90 minutes of our lives (before we finally turned it off) that we will never get back.The trailers we saw for "Lies & Illusions" on other DVDs tricked us; the cover and description on the DVD itself mislead us; the premise sounded promising and full of potential; and - most of all - Christian Slater and Cuba Gooding Jr. as the two leads fooled us into thinking that this would be - at the very worst - a fun time-waster.It was a time-waster but it was not fun. It was like a "porno" without the porn, leaving only "o" or, more accurately, "0": zero, nada - no redeeming qualities.I had the same experience as other reviewers, wondering 15 or 20 minutes into it (after commenting to my husband about the high "cheese" factor) if maybe it was intended as some kind of parody, which would explain the strange James Bond soundtrack.But nothing could explain the dialogue. Lines like "I really appreciate you accompanying me on this journey." Who talks like that? And who says "Ow, my ribs", after they've been kicked in the ribs? My only hope is that this will become some sort of cult classic - like "Plan 9 From Outer Space" - as the worst film of the 21st century. It's possible . . .