Dangerous Game
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Movie Reviews of Dangerous Game
Movie Review: One of Madonna's best....
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, I admit it, I'm an unashamed Madonna fan. I watch all of her movies and enjoy most of them. I do have to admit that some performances have been slightly 'raw', but in Dangerous Game, she shines brightly.
This is definitely an arthouse movie. You would need to enjoy indi and arthouse movies to appreciate this movie.
Dangerous Game has the motif of 'movie within a movie'....we see a movie being made and the behind the scenes footage.
In my opinion this is Madonna's finest acting performance. She brings so much to the character to give a mutlilayered performance.
Not just for Madonna fans - for all who enjoy indi/arthouse movies that make you think....
Movie Review: Pure Genius
Summary: 5 Stars
This is Madonna's best performance and one of the best performances by any screen actress for that matter. The film is very disturbing, yet so brilliant. It is sadly poetic in an exestential anti-transformative sort of Bataille-spiritual way. I love the film and love the DVD. It is a must have for any Madonna fan or Abel fan. And it is definately for any fan of classy, high-end, postmodern, underground narrative cinema. This is Abel's best film. Madonna and Abel are absolutely stunning and brilliant in this classic masterpiece of alternative cinema.Movie Review: Madonna's best performance....
Summary: 5 Stars
Dangerous Game is a movie which contains Madonna's most honest and natural performance. The unfortunate part is that the movie is so bad and hard to watch that not many people have seen it, mostly maybe hardcore Madonna fans like myself. She saves the movie from being a complete waste and just to watch her scenes alone is a treat and fast forward the rest . It's unfortunate that Madonna's good performances get lost in small movies what not many people see.Movie Review: Love it!!
Summary: 5 Stars
It was really dramatic, and dark. A homo-erotic comendy/ suspense thiller. Madonna did a good job as an actress. She played the emotional baggage very well. All of actors were used to the plot of the movie, and really put themselves into this film.Movie Review: Madonna's Finest (Celluloid) Moment
Summary: 4 Stars
It has become so commonplace for critics (professional and armchair alike) to trash Madonna's film outings that when she does deliver a solid performance, hardly anyone sees or hears about it. Such is the case with Abel Ferrara's 1993 box office bomb, "Dangerous Game". With a Hollywood backdrop, the film chronicles the agonies and ecstasies (mostly agonies) of a highly volatile and unstable group of people attempting to get a movie completed. As the tensions in the film spill over into the real lives of the actors and director, an atmosphere of escalating insanity develops, turning the movie set into a breeding ground for out-of-control behavior. Although "Dangerous Game" was produced by Madonna's (former) company, Maverick, make no mistake about it, this is an Abel Ferrara film all the way down the line. It is tough, dark, and uncompromising, which is probably one of the reasons why many people seem to hate this film. Ferrara gained earlier fame with the gritty "Bad Lieutenant" and "Ms. 45", so a viewer familiar with those films will already have an idea what to expect from "Dangerous Game".
Harvey Keitel, as always, does a stellar job. Here he plays a New York film director, leaving his family to fly to L.A. and make an extremely disturbing film about infidelity and abuse. Keitel, with his frazzled hair and craggy face, realistically portrays the increasing isolation of his character from his wife and son, eventually sinking into despair and disillusionment. James Russo, as the male lead of the film-within-a-film, excels at playing psychopaths, and here he's walking a fine line as a man descending into a drug and alcohol induced world of paranoid madness. He's a good actor and gives a convincing performance but his constant carrying-on in this film does get wearying. Of course, as stated above, the real revelation comes from Madonna's (pardon the pun) immaculate performance as the film's female lead. She is totally believable in a role that calls for her to exhibit acting chops I never dreamed she had. Too many bad roles in bad movies have, I believe, led most people to stereotype her as a bad actress, but that's really not true. She's done good work in other films ("Evita", Desperately Seeking Susan", "Dick Tracy") but she's won notoriety for "Swept Away", "Who's That Girl?", "The Next Best Thing",and "Shanghai Surprise", and that's what most people think about when they hear the words Madonna and movie used in the same sentence. In "Dangerous Game" she's a gorgeous, frightened, overgrown kid trying to act like a tough grownup, and, in the process, becoming an eternal victim. It's easily Madonna's best acting job, and it's obvious that she had to reach deep within herself to deliver a performance of this range and quality.
The film itself is too relentlessly despairing and depressing. Despite the fine cinematography, there's an underlying ugliness to the film; it's an extremely effective and disturbing film, without ever being enjoyable, and maybe that's what killed it at the box office. Worth a look if you're aware of what you're getting into.