Deadly Illusions

Filled with exposition, predictable character turns, and questionable dialogue, Deadly Illusions is a mess.

It's like someone looked up the formula of an erotic thriller and decided it was too much work, so they made this film instead.

Deadly Illusions is little more than a series of screenwriting clichés lined up one after another.

It doesn't even work as lowball camp.

Grammer plays the role with enough mystery to make the character interesting at every turn. That was important because the story follows a standard plotline.

I simultaneously insist you watch this straight gay film but also fail to recommend it.

It's tricky deciding what kind of cheese "Deadly Illusions," a diverting thriller starring Kristin Davis and Dermot Mulroney streaming on Netflix, is exactly. Soft and overripe, from the look of it.

Movies don't come much clunkier than "Deadly Illusions," an unconvincing mishmash of psychodrama and erotic thriller filled with silly plot holes, obvious dialogue, and risibly bad actions and reactions.

A Lifetime disaster masquerading as a competent thriller. I get the desire for ambiguity but at some point you need to commit to a thread

"Deadly Illusions" is often unintentionally funny, frequently head-scratching, and worst of all, disappointing - not because it isn't better, but because it isn't worse.

It's not particularly good. Soft-core cheese.

Ultimately derivative and too silly for its own good.

The movie offers decent performances and a mystery element that makes the over-stretched runtime as engaging as it can be, yet the predictable and tired outcome will leave you wondering whether it was really worth the watch.