The Game
by David Fincher
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Actor: Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn, Michael Douglas, Peter Donat, Sean PennDirector: David Fincher
Brand: DOUGLAS,MICHAEL
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of The Game
Movie Review: suspend disbelief and enjoy
Summary: 4 Stars
Michael Douglas completely dominates "The Game", with nobody else, even Sean Penn, appearing in major minutes. He goes from the "Greed is Good" style investment banker, rich but alone, to a harried victim of "The Game", struggling to decide what is going on, and perhaps struggling for survival. Douglas' versatility is on solid display here, and he gets fine backup from the others.
I watched this the day after Batman ("Dark Knight") and enjoyed this one more, except for Heath Ledger as "Joker". The action moves more swiftly and the script is tighter than Batman's, played more around the edges, even though Batman films are also dark. The film's goal was achieved: I was confused and wondering whether the "game" had really become an elaborate con with theft and murder involved.
My advice is to try ignoring the huge plot holes and implausibilities while watching. "How could they do that?" or "How could they know Nicholas would do that?" are fair questions, although not essential and not helpful. I don't know if the director is trying to claim our lives, even for a sophisticated person such as Nicholas, are so predictable. I would be depressed to experience a sequence of events such as these, where I was both easily controlled and easily anticipated, especially by people who didn't even know me before. The film's climax involving a building's rooftop is a fitting example.
Summary of The Game
A self-centered businessman is enrolled in a \""game\"" as a birthday present from his brother, and soon finds everything he controlled slipping from his grasp.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 14-FEB-2006
Media Type: DVD
It's not quite as clever as it tries to be, but The Game does a tremendous job of presenting the story of a rigid control freak trapped in circumstances that are increasingly beyond his control. Michael Douglas plays a rich, divorced, and dreadful investment banker whose 48th birthday reminds him of his father's suicide at the same age. He's locked in the cage of his own misery until his rebellious younger brother (Sean Penn) presents him with a birthday invitation to play "The Game" (described as "an experiential Book of the Month Club")--a mysterious offering from a company called Consumer Recreation Services. Before he knows the game has even begun, Douglas is caught up in a series of unexplained events designed to strip him of his tenuous security and cast him into a maelstrom of chaos. How do you play a game that hasn't any rules? That's what Douglas has to figure out, and he can't always rely on his intelligence to form logic out of what's happening to him. Seemingly cast as the fall guy in a conspiracy thriller, he encounters a waitress (Deborah Unger) who may or may not be trustworthy, and nothing can be taken at face value in a world turned upside down. Douglas is great at conveying the sheer panic of his character's dilemma, and despite some lapses in credibility and an anticlimactic ending, The Game remains a thinking person's thriller that grabs and holds your attention. --Jeff Shannon
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