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Funny Games (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 138
Fresh: 71 | Rotten: 67

Though made with great skill, Funny Games is nevertheless a sadistic exercise in chastising the audience.

Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 21

Though made with great skill, Funny Games is nevertheless a sadistic exercise in chastising the audience.

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Notoriously nihilistic filmmaker Michael Haneke revisits one of his most controversial works in this remake of 1997's Funny Games starring Naomi Watts and Tim Roth. When a family of three arrives at their remote summer cabin for a quiet getaway, the sudden arrival of two psychotic men sets the stage for a harrowing life-or-death struggle that offers savage commentary on the use of violence in entertainment. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

R, 1 hr. 52 min.

Mystery & Suspense

Directed By: Michael Haneke

Written By: Michael Haneke

In Theaters: Mar 14, 2008 Wide

On DVD: Jun 10, 2008

Box Office:$1.0M

Warner Independent Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Funny Games

All Critics (138) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (72) | Rotten (71) | DVD (6)

That this relentless barrage of psychological and physical torture is extremely well made and powerfully performed -- Watts hurls herself into her physically demanding role with heroic conviction -- somehow makes it worse.

March 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Newsweek

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David Ansen

Newsweek

Top Critic

The fact that it features fine performances, talented direction and some moments of genuine suspense only makes the end product that much more grotesque and appalling.

March 17, 2008 Comments (4)

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

Haneke's assault on our fantasy lives is shallow, unimaginative, and glacially unengaged -- a sucker punch without the redeeming passion of punk.

March 17, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Magazine

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David Edelstein

New York Magazine

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In addition to being borderline unendurable, Funny Games is inexplicable, and I don't mean in any philosophical sense. Who thought the world needed a shot-for-shot English-language version of Mr. Haneke's 1997 German-language film?

March 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal

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Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

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While Haneke is attacking our culture for being drawn to violent fare, he is also relishing in presenting it to us, in prolonged and detailed fashion.

March 14, 2008 Full Review Source: USA Today

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Claudia Puig

USA Today

Top Critic

The performances are outstanding across the board. The direction and writing are masterful.

March 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Peter Howell

Toronto Star

Top Critic

This new version adds nothing novel, but it lacks none of the original's bite.

September 12, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out Sydney

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Wally Hammond

Time Out Sydney

If you saw the original, the elements of suprise may be missing, but dread and suspense and nastiness are translated perfectly.

September 12, 2008 Full Review Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National

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Julie Rigg

MovieTime, ABC Radio National

As an experiment in film form, Funny Games is intriguing, but the self-congratulation and post-modern trickery are at once irksome and intellectually and artistically dishonest.

September 12, 2008 Full Review Source: FILMINK (Australia)

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Peter Galvin

FILMINK (Australia)

We're left with the nasty taste of our own bloodlust long after the credits have rolled.

September 12, 2008 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph (Australia)

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Vicky Roach

Daily Telegraph (Australia)

Registers more strongly than the original as a film about privileged white people...

September 12, 2008 Full Review Source: The Age (Australia)

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Jake Wilson

The Age (Australia)

An actors' showcase and a hefty serving of director Michael Haneke's self indulgence

September 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile

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Andrew L. Urban

Urban Cinefile

There is something far uglier and dirtier below the surface: voyeuristic sadism in which Haneke implicitly involves his audience

September 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile

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Louise Keller

Urban Cinefile

It's a tawdry kind of horror movie plot, given new meaning by Haneke's considerable intellect.

September 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald

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Paul Byrnes

Sydney Morning Herald

I'm not at all sure that, in manipulating the audience to make his points, Haneke isn't as guilty of exploitation as the filmmakers and the films he's attacking here.

September 5, 2008 Full Review Source: At the Movies (Australia)

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David Stratton

At the Movies (Australia)

Mature, complicated look at movie violence.

July 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

The movie is unforgettable and will cause a reaction from you, whether you like it or not. Me? I liked it's sick, twisted sense of manipulating the audience

June 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Sin Magazine

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Austin Kennedy

Sin Magazine

Flogging the audience is one thing, but to deny them free will in their role - thus responsibility - is something else.

June 12, 2008 Full Review Source: Projection Booth

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Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

After several years of "torture porn" horror flicks, Funny Games sets the counter back to zero, reminding us that torture isn't fun, isn't stimulating, and isn't something we should be getting off on.

June 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Aisle Seat

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Mike McGranaghan

Aisle Seat

In Funny Games, Haneke seems content to ram his thumbs into our eyes and then ask us why we were foolish enough to get within arm's length of his gray, grizzled visage.

June 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Paste Magazine

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Robert Davis

Paste Magazine

...ugly and mean-spirited, which is I guess what its creator intended.

June 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

...a lurid piece of business, made all the more offensive for its apparent higher aspirations.

June 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Funny Games is the theme park ride for anyone wanting to experience what it must have been like for Catherine Martin to put the fucking lotion in the basket.

June 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

With the cult of cruelty wallpapering the media more than ever, and murders, wars and celebrity breakdowns as spectator sport, it was inevitable that the cinema of sadism would grab the untapped egghead arthouse crowd market. And the stampede is on.

June 5, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze

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Prairie Miller

NewsBlaze

A disgusting indulgence in bloodlust likely to leave an audience feeling more abused than entertained.

June 5, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze

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Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

toso idio me to prototypo, poy aksizei na to deis mono an den to%u0384hes dei, i an theleis na to ksanadeis

May 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses

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Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

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Didn´t expect such a disappointement from Michael Haneke, whose most movies I admire. Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet don´t convince. Hitchcock´s "Rope" is much a better example of psychotic guys and cold murder.

June 6, 2009

Rubia Carolina .

Super Reviewer

Unless Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes was a shot-for-shot remake, (keeping in mind that I've never seen the original), I don't think I've ever watched such a beast, let alone one made by the same filmmaker as the original. I mean, what's the point, exactly? Perhaps a wider appeal in America/the English-speaking world,

March 20, 2012

Daniel Perry

Super Reviewer

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1. Anna Farber: Why don't you just kill us?
2. Peter: You shouldn't forget the importance of entertainment.
– Submitted by Thomas R (2 months ago)
1. Anna Farber: He only wants to have a game.
2. Peter: Funny game.
– Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)
1. Paul: We're not up to feature film length yet.
– Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

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