GamerTab That was an excellent one.

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

richdick-96105 Suspenseful thriller that had me hooked till the end. What an annoying,ridiculous cop out ending. Ruined the whole film. Such a pity!

samijakko Awful movie! I could not watch the hole movie so I skipped straight to the end and was hoping that those annoying guys would been killed. That never happened. Anyway, how someone can be so nasty and out of his mind that would create this kind of movie. I was scared nowhere in this movie, because this movie was kind of boring. And so disgusting. Definitely big NO for this movie!

ppilf Funny Games (2007) is a USA English-speaking identical remake of the 1997 Austrian film of the same name. Both films were written and directed by the world-renowned Austrian screen playwright and director Michael Haneke, one of the greatest film artists working today. Both films are fascinating psychological crime thrillers that portray the criminal sadist mind. This film is more of the intellectual genre rather than the brainless action/gore thriller; it is sometimes referred to as "playing with your mind". Some people just can't grasp that genre, so please don't let negative reviews by brainless fuddy-duddies influence you. Watch this movie! It is great! Yes, it's very dark, intense, and shocking, but you could list a dozen other famous and great films that are equally dark and shocking. So, I concurrently agree that if you don't like dark psychological crime movies, then you shouldn't view this movie. But to call this a poor film because you can't digest the subject matter is simply dumb.Funny Games depicts a home invasion perpetrated by two psychopathic young men upon a moderately wealthy young couple who are vacationing at their private lake home with their child son. The two psychopaths gain entry to the victim's home by appearing genuine and normal at first. The screenwriter's combination of "cold politeness" with utter depravity in the two young criminals is part of this film's unique morbid appeal. I won't reveal any further details to avoid further spoiling the suspense and story to prospective viewers.If you like dark suspense, this film will keep you frightened and glued to your seat from beginning to end. Because one thing that this film is NOT, is predictable. It also contains a surprise scene that temporarily shifts into the realm of fantasy, which further bends minds and entertains the audience. The acting, directing, story development, and screenplay are excellent.

bobcolganrac Many others have written thoughtful critiques here, most of which cite the director's amazing scene-by-scene duplication of his original German film......okay.What got me about this film, almost more than any film I have watched, is the extraordinary graphic capture of psychopathy.That the two young white-gloved (nice touch: innocence, cleanliness, oblique reference to mimes, fingerprintless) captors embody complete lack of caring for others better than any other film characters I have seen---complete lack of empathy, or sympathy for that matter-- makes this the consummate movie to watch if you want to try to understand psychopaths.Ellison's character, Bates, in "American Psycho" comes close, but that film heavily redacted the violence portrayed in the book (which had they shown it would have gotten it blacklisted, probably)....still, this movie, even though violence is inferred and usually off-camera, manages to give the viewer a look at callousness in its purest form. In war movies, in movies about concentration camp abuses such as "Schindler's List" the callousness occurs in an ambiance of prison barbarity. Everything in that matrix conveys heartlessness------------but here, the setting is upscale Americana. Regular well-to-do folks, in their well-to-do-not-far-removed- lookswise-from-regular-homes vacation home setting. Thus the jarring juxtaposition of meaningless violence in upper suburbia has the effect of increasing the horror factor as it also ups the unease one experiences the entirety of the film.Watching a spider toy with its prey by moving in and biting the unlucky netted victim repeatedly and then beginning to wrap it before death has overtaken it -----gives some idea of how one feels when watching this movie. But the spider is gathering food. That's not the case here: everything that happens is gratuitous, without reason, without rational sense. That Micheal Pitts looks remarkably at times like young Donald Trump....? Just more icing on this truly sick, but amazingly powerful film about people using other people without any regard for them.I would give it a 10, and considering I am still shaking after watching it last evening it probably could be a 10.Not for the sensitive, or easily disturbed viewer at all.