The Game

1997 "What do you get for the man who has everything?"
7.7| 2h9m| R| en| More Info
Released: 12 September 1997 Released
Producted By: Propaganda Films
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.criterion.com/films/28058-the-game
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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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helenafrazier There are surprises at every turn. It keeps you guessing to the very end. The end is satisfying, which is a welcome change from many movies like this that build you up only to let you down. Wonderful acting. I'd definitely recommended as a date night movie.
jonwhan699 If you are at all an intelligent human. If you have reason and logic. You will not like this film. It starts off okay, but when the game is meant to make him happy or whatever. Great we get it. He's gotta enjoy life so he doenst kill himself like his Daddy. So we know it's all fake. But wait! It wasn't fake. It was a scam to steal his money! But wait! There's still 30 minutes left and I'm certain it's not going to be 30 minutes of Taken part 4: the late 90s Michael Douglas edition. So the game is still on and everything's fine. I was complaining about the movie the whole time, waiting for it not to follow a really predictable series of events.But it did. And I was right to complain.
jameeljaaabari One of the most beautiful movies I ever watched you can't expect anything
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)