The Game
The Game
R | 12 September 1997 (USA)
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In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

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Evengyny

Thanks for the memories!

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Verity Robins

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

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Ava-Grace Willis

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

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Fleur

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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phanthinga

This is the first time ever I've been blown alway by the talent behind the movie The Game that is director David Fincher for directing such an awesome crime thriller that i can't even predict anything so the final twist hit me hard and let me speechless for a moment.Everyone performance is fantastic and above all is Michael Douglas and Deborah Kara Unger.It sad that when you finish The Game the replay value of the movie is very small cause you already know all twist and turn so I can't really find myself watching The Game again with anyone

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cinemajesty

Movie Review: "The Game" (1997)Director David Fincher taking a seemingly-simplistic plot and makes into a thriller of superlatives with every scene revealing as disguising pieces of a threading puzzle of life-and-death situations for ultra-rich in money, but low on character Nicholas Van Orton, exceptionally compelling portrayed by Michael Douglas, who carries the picture on his shoulders in the director's signature-defining suspense-techniques, which become even more classy in "The Game" fulfilling attempt of maturity, when preceeding "Se7en" (1995) and succeeding "Fight Club" (1999) must remain striking strokes of a director's youth."The Game" in retrospective tells its original story written by co-writers John Brancato & Michael Ferris in eye-catching high-concept fashions with respect to enterprising as daring producers Céan Chaffin and Steve Golin raising a 50-Million-Dollar production budget for 34-year-old David Fincher in order to let him exceed the page with exceptional-elegant cinematography by Harry Savides (1957-2012) and production design by Jeffrey Beecroft, who so fulminated ranges his art directions efforts from neo-realism to hyper-synthesizing science-fiction scenarios in future-wising "Transformers: Age of Extinction" (2014) for director Michael Bay, when here every single film-making department falls into place to the most intriguing as entertaining thriller of the 1990s.Futhermore supporting cast members, including Sean Penn as distressed as exaggerating brother Conrad over Deborah Kara Unger as poker-face mimicking even in jeans seductively-sexy Christine to Armin Mueller-Stahl as further trails-laying Anson Baer, when Michael Douglas delivers with all his skill of method to splendid moment of improvisition a picture to be marked as arguably the best of his now up to five decades spanning career.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

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denzil-09434

I waited an hour for anything credible to happen in this movie. It didn't. The second hour may well be genius but I will never know. I'd like to ask any of those leaving positive reviews: If you found a giant ventriloquist's dummy on your lawn would you bring it in the house and watch TV with it? No? Me neither. Say you did. When you found out it had a camera in it wouldn't you tell it to f**k off, throw it out and go to bed? I would. To be a thriller the premise must be at least a little bit credible. This is less believable, less gripping and less thrilling than Police Academy V.

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Mihai Toma

Nicholas is a very wealthy banker, living his boring and unsurprising life without caring about anyone but himself. As a result, his brother Conrad invites him to join a very mysterious game which promises to change his life. Full of doubt but also intrigued by it, he fills in the forms and all begins with a call from the company which owned it. Soon after that, strange events start to occur making him doubt his sanity and subsequently his own circle of friends.It is a very interesting plot centered on this "game", following closely every peril Nicholas has to face in order to come back to reality, if there even is one anymore. The mystery gets deeper after each event, fact which is a delight and it was almost impossible for me predict what was going to happen, so another plus here. Michael Douglas plays a great role throughout the movie expressing a great variety of emotions without breaking a sweat. Although the finale is a bit flat (but highly unexpected) and it had its inevitable boring moments, I strongly recommend this one as I enjoyed it a lot overall.

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