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One of the producers says in the production notes that he considers this movie as "something of a throwback to an earlier era of filmmaking." He must be referring to the 1980s, because this feels like the kind of slick, mindless thriller Adrian Lyne used to make — for better and for worse.

For a while, it has the guilty-pleasure allure of a 9 1/2 Weeks or a Fatal Attraction. Eventually, though, it collapses into such a ridiculous pile of plot twists and double crosses, there's nothing pleasurable about it.

Ewan McGregor puts on a hammy New York accent to star as a lonely, naive accountant whose life consists of working late nights. Hugh Jackman is all charisma and expensive suits as the lawyer who introduces him to a secret, executive sex club. And Michelle Williams, glammed up to look like Gwyneth Paltrow, plays the femme fatale caught in the middle of a deadly scheme.