Game 6
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Bebe Neuwirth, Catherine O'Hara, Griffin Dunne, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr. Brand: Hart Sharp Video DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Hindi (Original Language) Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 87 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-05-23 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Model: 035726 Studio: Arts Alliance Amer Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Game 6
Movie Review: If you've read Don DeLillo, you know what to expect
Summary: 3 Stars
Although Ebert & Roeper give the film "Two Thumbs Way Up" and Roeper seems to think that Keaton turns in "the first nomination worthy performance of 2006", Game 6 is slow, and rather boring for the majority of the film. And that's saying a lot when the film is only around 80 minutes long, apparently 87 if you believe the box.
The acting is all solid. Keaton does turn in a solid performance, as does everyone else, most notably Robert Downey Jr. as an infamously negative and destructive theatre critic and Catherine O'Hara as Keaton's soon-to-be-ex-wife. The problem is the production value of the film... and the script. When you only have $500,000 to work with and you're filming in Manhattan, not much can be expected of your production value (though the director and cinematographer did opt for 16mm film instead of going for digital, good call). As for the script...
Don DeLillo's Game 6 has been sitting around Paramount going unmade for almost 15 years now. After seeing the movie, it's clear that there's a reason why. It seems loosely based on the book Cosmopolis, or maybe it's the other way around since Cosmopolis only came out a few years ago. Replace a high-powered executive with a high-profile playwright and you've got almost the same story: a man's world seems to be falling down around him as he rides in various unmoving taxi cabs all day, stopping to see his daughter, his mistress, his wife, and get a haircut. Game 6, however, is set in 1986 on the day of the sixth game of the World Series between the Red Sox and the Mets.
Many of the scenes in Game 6 are almost exactly the same dialogue as Cosmopolis, which is off-putting considering they're different stories and no mention of the novel is made anywhere. The dialogue is distinctly DeLillo with people often repeating a phrase several times, or giving a monologue out of left field as if it actually applies to the situation at hand.
What makes this movie bearable, and actually almost enjoyable, is watching Michael Keaton do his best to navigate the scenery and the script, and knowing that he's doing it out of passion for the story, and not for money, regardless of whether the story itself seems deserving of said pasion.
By the end, the film seems to get a firm grasp of where it's going and how it's getting there, and almost manages to pull the viewer along. It's up to you to decide whether or not you want to go.