Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Purely Joyful Movie!

Brilliant and touching

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

GAME OF DEATH (bad choice, choosing a title the same as the Bruce Lee movie, as well as making this sound like a tournament-style film, which is isn't) is one of the last movies Wesley Snipes made before being jailed for tax evasion, and it's one for the fans. Most people unaccustomed to B-movies will see it for what it is - a cheap, overly familiar star vehicle that's not much different from the kind of DTV trash Seagal films these days.However, those who enjoy low budget action flicks may find a surprise or two in a film which turns out to be a lot better than expected, purely because it's serious, straight to the point, with a well-focused script and plenty of action. In essence, Snipes is part of a CIA team who turn renegade and forget to tell him about it, leaving him the only guy capable of taking down the bad guys.GAME OF DEATH has plenty of action, and a lot of it is good. There's an extended hospital siege scenario (complete with homages to HARD BOILED) which takes place around the halfway mark, and this is the highlight, offering a series of frenetic one-on-one fights as Snipes tackles numerous henchmen, including DRUNKEN MASTER II's Ho-Sung Pak. The fights aren't the best the genre has to offer, but they're pretty intense and don't shy away from violence, which is always a good thing.The rest of the storyline, taking place outside of the hospital, is less gripping, but the last third is still pretty good. It helps that Snipes is on top hard-ass form, refusing to back down and taking it to the villains throughout. The ever-underrated Gary Daniels is a nice choice as the chief baddie, and there are great supporting turns from familiar actors who have been away from our screens for too long, like Ernie Hudson and Robert Davi. Choreography is fairly good and the film zips along at a fine old pace. I liked it.

My only problem, anybody trained to kill does NOT play with the other dude. Kill when you can... easy. I can understand not killing the blond in the first scene with her; but after, she's dead. Easy. Too much talk, too little action. You catch the hero; shoot him; easy. Well, it follows what every "evil" action flick always follows. When they have a shootout, the "bad guys" explain everything. WTF!!!!! The action by Wesley is f'in AWESOME. But the director has f'd up. The flashbacks should have happened at the beginning during the chase in the streets. And that the secondary nurse gets killed to "save" the hero.... bs. JC yall; is this what yall got? My job is to hurt people and I have never trained liked these people, but I know NEVER let an opponent get up.

Cons: No gun is reloaded in the whole movie! They shoot about 100 bullets... it's almost like they are playing GTA with infinite ammo cheat! Too much killing. For people that used to work for the CIA you'd think they would have a conscience. I'd have to say they shot every person they came into contact with! Only like 2 characters survive.The main character... wow… You'd think that after someone innocent is shot he would show some kind of emotion? I count about 5 innocent people shot right beside him and he acts like nothing happened... i thought he was CIA??!? The hand to hand combat scenes are corny and dumb. They speed up the motions making the characters move their hands at some ridiculously unrealistic speed.The end fight scene... the main character just happens to run out of ammo? The first gun in the WHOLE movie to run out of ammo.NO CLOSURE. The movie just ends basically. The main baddies are taken out except for a few? Do they really expect a sequel? Effects imported from Windows Movie Maker?MOST IMPORTANT: NOTHING ORIGINAL. Seen it before in 100 other wannabe famous action movies. The ONLY thing that makes a movie is originality. It's like in music: when someone makes a cover it is NEVER as popular or good as the original.The list just keeps on going, however, I'll stop there before i bore you. Summary: If you're bored on a long school holiday and have seen every rental in the video store, maybe consider it. Don't expect anything special or original. Be prepared for over the top killing, swearing and emotionless characters. Finally, when the movie ends, Don't expect closure. To be honest, I've seen better movie talent on YouTube.

Even in this horrible movie you show that you got talent. Why do you lower yourself to work with people that seems to know nothing about making exciting movies? The editing is horrible and there is not real feeling in the action scenes either. guns that sound "pjuff pjuff" along with horrible editing is not a good way to go.This one had an exciting idea of making an exciting movie but its all just washed away during the course of the movie.The end fight is worth looking at though so for all that hasn't seen it fast forward to that one for some good old Wesley Snipes action! Otherwise its not much to look at here.But again, this is not due to Snipes 'cause he seems to be doing the best he can making it exciting but with bad editing and directing overall - noting can save this movies face.