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
Synopsis

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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Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Andrea Tsereteli (House of Targaryen) Plot:movie was about the game,which is founded by company and they use this game for fun people.in this game everything was developing strangely.that makes it interesting this movie.also in this game,we saw human's psychology. Goal of the movie is what will happen end of the game. This movie's plus is how directon telling story.you are tense in the whole movie.which is david fincher merit. It's convincingly story but there are some mistakes in the movie.some moments isn't believable. In my opinion this movies's weakness is less dialoges and movies's pace
Nelson Strang It's Fincher, so it looks and sounds fantastic. It's Douglas and Penn, so the performances are spot on. But it doesn't quite fire on all cylinders. Not emotionally engaging enough and too cerebral to really hook you in. Some great set pieces, but the coincidences required for the plot contrivance to work are just a step too far to be able to take it seriously. It's entertaining enough, but it ain't great.
jameeljaaabari One of the most beautiful movies I ever watched you can't expect anything
colinscouser-05442 Michael Douglas' performance superbly holds this film together. Now matter how ludicrous the plot becomes - and it does become ludicrous - Douglas plays it so that he and the audience together are none the wiser and piece it together at the same speed. Although it seemed highly original to me at first, in fact its plot owes a lot to the 1984 Remington Steele episode 'Elementary Steele'. The fact that punters have paid £500 to a business so as to take part in 'The Game' where a mystery is laid out for them around the city to solve; the fact that it starts to look like a scam; that the punters (playing Holmes and Watson) chase someone who they think is part of The Game but she protests she is not, and says she is just an actress, when she clearly knows more than she is letting on; plus. gunshots fired (at Remington Steele) in the street turn out to be blanks because the gun is part of the Game; plus, when Remington Steele visits the business's offices (doing his detective there), he finds almost no-one and nothing in the room (basic office furniture); etc, etc. All these things are developed in the Michael Douglas film, turning a light romp into a dark thriller that keeps you guessing. Highly entertaining and tense. It's increasingly less and less plausible but Douglas keeps you believing, just.