This is all great, compelling stuff, and although director Jayanti sometimes goes overboard with his technique (weird inserts, strange camera angles), it's a story that practically tells itself.
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12/08/04
Game Over - Kasparov and the Machine (2003)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:21
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.6/10
Theatrical Release:Dec 3, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: In 1997, amidst much media fanfare about the showdown between artificial and human intelligence, chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov lost a set of matches against IBM's "thinking" computer Deep Blue.... [More]
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Reviews for Game Over - Kasparov and the Machine
Director Vikram Jayanti makes a nail-biter out of the historic 1997 match between the charismatic, mordantly funny Kasparov and the steamer trunks of circuitry.
12/03/04
Top CriticIt piques our interest in a subject we knew little about and never thought we'd care to see on a screen, then wastes our newfound curiosity through a lack of material and directorial diligence.
12/31/04
Top CriticIt's a fascinating story, and mostly because Garry Kasparov is a fascinating subject.
03/04/05
It should be good fun for chess lovers. For the chess-indifferent, it also has some enjoyable moments.
03/25/05
Kasparov is a sympathetic character and, even as he belabors the outcome years later, we feel for him
06/03/05
A film which builds into a gripping blend of When We Were Kings and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
11/29/04
An involving character study.
02/03/05
Top CriticAlthough Jayanti creates an absorbing scenario of possible corporate malfeasance engineered by a group of slide-rule wielding thugs and shadowy boardroom bullies, he fails to produce the requisite smoking pawn.
03/18/05
Top CriticAfter the interesting chess lesson is done in Game Over, all Jayanti has left is a film with one big question and no visible attempt to find any answers.
02/11/05
Top CriticIf you don't know a knight's gambit from a rook switcheroo -- or if you don't know there's no such thing as a rook switcheroo -- it probably won't interest you.
02/03/05
An engaging film.
03/04/05
Top CriticThough it never disguises its sympathies for Kasparov and contempt for a powerful corporation's machinations, docu is finally a speculation on the limits of the human mind and how truth can never be fully known.
03/04/05
Top CriticIn overemphasizing the conspiracy case, Game Over moves from being a compelling documentary to a frankly irritating one.
03/04/05
Top CriticVikram Jayanti's gripping documentary Game Over reminds us that chess legend Garry Kasparov's greatest victory was charged with political significance.
11/30/04
Top CriticPropelled by the edge-of-nerves atmospherics of Robert Lane's music, this is as much a psychological thriller as a historical document.
03/27/05
Vikram Jayanti's solid documentary is still fairly suspenseful.
12/03/04
Top CriticThis deflating documentary gives up its quest for answers too easily.
12/06/04
Top CriticHas the paranoid tone and narrative urgency of a conspiracy thriller.
12/03/04
interesting on a human level since it doesn't dwell on the strategical and analytical aspects of the game
02/03/06
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