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Reindeer Games (2000)
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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:21
Rotten:65
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: Despite a decent cast, subpar acting and a contrived plot disappointed reviewers.
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) is a small-time car thief about to be released from jail in time for Christmas. When his cellmate, Nick, is suddenly killed, Rudy decides to take on his identity in order... Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) is a small-time car thief about to be released from jail in time for Christmas. When his cellmate, Nick, is suddenly killed, Rudy decides to take on his identity in order to meet Nick's beautiful pen-pal girlfriend, Ashley (Charlize Theron). The couple has fun until her psychotic brother, Gabriel (Gary Sinise), shows up. Gabriel and his gang want to hold up a casino where Nick had once worked, and they blackmail Rudy/Nick into going along with the scheme. Rudy has to bluff his way through the crime, pretending to be Nick in order to avoid being killed while trying to sabotage the plans of the bad guys. Will Rudy be able to outsmart the bad guys, or will he end up facedown in the snow? Double crosses abound in this frosty film noir action movie boasting a twisty script by writer Ehren Kruger (SCREAM 3, ARLINGTON ROAD) and assured direction by veteran John Frankenheimer (THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, RONIN), plus a sneaky sense of humor and plenty of Christmas references. [More]
Starring: Ben Affleck, Charlize Theron, Gary Sinise, James Frain
Starring: Ben Affleck, Charlize Theron, Gary Sinise, James Frain, Dennis Farina, Donal Logue, Danny Trejo, Clarence Williams, Ashton Kutcher, James Hutson, Mark Hoeppner
Director: John Frankenheimer
Director: John Frankenheimer
Screenwriter: Ehren Kruger
Producer: Marty Katz, Chris Moore, Bob Weinstein
Composer: Alan Silvestri
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Reviews for Reindeer Games
seems always to be verging on the edge of camp, as if it were nudged just a little bit to the left it would be an all-out comedy rather than a thriller
Frankenheimer has been providing vivid lowlifes and yanking our chains in the double- and triple-cross departments, and the great action stylist does it here again with renewed energy and what appears to be redoubled glee.
Every plot complication is so implausible that, after a while, you stop paying attention and start wondering just how big an idiot the filmmakers mistook you for.
At times Reindeer Games looks as if it was directed by Frankenstein, not Frankenheimer. You want to kill it. You want to run away.
A contrived, cliché riddled yawner that's got nothing going for it other than a tasty sex scene and an exploding truck.
The ho-hum thrills and coincidental mystery of these Games will likely leave you shrugging with indifference on the way out the door.
You're left to wonder why all of this bile is being spilled on such trivial material.
So relentlessly unpleasant that it could have been knowingly designed as the reductio ad absurdum of the heartless, empty, violence-as-sideshow thriller.
Where else are you going get to see five Santas storm a bargain basement casino with guns a' blazin'?
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