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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.
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.
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.
A crowd-pleasing pip most of the way.
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.
Fincher is still working on the assumption that he has better things to do than entertain an audience. Which would be fine if he weren't drawn to such schlocky material.
Sure, it strains credulity, but it's clever, well-paced and builds to a spectacular -- if not altogether satisfying -- conclusion.
Good looking, tightly controlled thriller. An exhilarating ride that prepares the ground for Fight Club.
"The Game" is a thrilling end run of deception in which a master manipulator is masterfully manipulated.
The film's 'message' about complacency transformed by chaos and uncertainty is hackneyed...
A solid original screenplay -- one of the best out of Hollywood this year.
The Game is one of those films that requires the viewer to suspend his disbelief to a great extent, but offers pretty good entertainment in return for that effort.
The Game is something more than a stylish thriller, though it dishes up style and thrills in abundance.
You know how some films could be great or have indeed some great moments, but for some reason, are disappointing? This piece is exactly in that category.
Once again, Fincher settles for artifice over art.
The rocky blur between reality and fantasy aspires to be a Hitchcockian After Hours, but at two hours plus, The Game gets played out early on.
David Fincher has emerged as one of the most provocative filmmakers of the decade.
David Fincher directs this claustrophobic thriller with visceral punch and stylistic vitality.
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