The Game (1997)
During his 48th birthday, a successful and rich banker, Nicolas Van Ortton, receives his first present for his birthday ever from his brother, that gives him the chance to participate in the most dangerous game ever, the thing that makes him struggle against saving his life and getting out from such a dangerous game.
4 December 1946, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
29 December 1964, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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1 October 1960, Jacksonville, North Carolina, USA
17 December 1930, Tilsit, East Prussia, Germany [now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]
12 March 1972, New York City, New York, USA
21 November 1938, California, USA
7 January 1948, San Jose, California, USA
1 September 1952, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
30 November 1976
September 26, 2012
This is one of those movies that's so tightly written and densely plotted, it leaves no room for error -- or viewer queries. Unfortunately, the questions will start flying even before the picture's over.
October 04, 2011
Sure, it strains credulity, but it's clever, well-paced and builds to a spectacular -- if not altogether satisfying -- conclusion.
October 18, 2012
[N]ifty filmic style and crackpot sensibility.
June 18, 2002
The picture provides Douglas with one of his best roles. If he doesn't quite reach the bizarre heights he achieved in Falling Down, The Game makes its own demands.
February 16, 2016
Engaging '90s thriller has lots of violence, profanity.
January 01, 2000
Douglas is the right actor for the role. He can play smart, he can play cold, and he can play angry. He is also subtle enough that he never arrives at an emotional plateau before the film does, and never overplays the process of his inner change.
March 26, 2009
Regardless of how far one chooses to buy into The Game -- and the ending ambiguously suggests that it could go on and on -- there is no doubt as to Fincher's staggering expertise as a director and his almost clinical sense of precision.
October 06, 2012
Well-written, expertly paced, and undeniably riveting, The Game is perhaps most impressive in the way it strips down the Nicholas Van Orton character. The whole process is very layered and each layer breaks down Nicholas even more than the last.
February 09, 2006
The film's 'message' about complacency transformed by chaos and uncertainty is hackneyed...
January 01, 2000
As it's unspooling on screen, the film is hugely entertaining, but there are several significant plot holes that grow wider the more closely they're investigated.
October 04, 2011
This 1997 thriller is fairly entertaining nonsense if all you're looking for is 128 minutes of diversion. But if you'd like something more from David Fincher, the director of Seven, don't get your hopes up.
