The Game (1997)

Excellent adaptation.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Even though i realized early on, this would be one of those movies, that would break down and descend into absurdity, i have to admit , that I found it suspenseful and entertaining.

One of the most beautiful movies I ever watched you can't expect anything

'The Game (1997)' is all about the moment, being placed in the shoes of the protagonist and doubting everything you see just as he does, and it works remarkably well considering it has more twists and turns than a country lane. Its various reveals always work because it has the remarkable ability to predict exactly what its audience is thinking and to be two steps ahead of them even when they think they are two steps ahead of it, and it is this underlying intelligence that prevents the flick from feeling cheap or frustrating in any way other than one which would enhance our connection with the core character and strap us in for a mind-game almost like no other. 7/10

Movie Review: "The Game" (1997)Director David Fincher taking a seemingly-simplistic plot and makes into a thriller of superlatives with every scene revealing as disguising pieces of a threading puzzle of life-and-death situations for ultra-rich in money, but low on character Nicholas Van Orton, exceptionally compelling portrayed by Michael Douglas, who carries the picture on his shoulders in the director's signature-defining suspense-techniques, which become even more classy in "The Game" fulfilling attempt of maturity, when preceeding "Se7en" (1995) and succeeding "Fight Club" (1999) must remain striking strokes of a director's youth."The Game" in retrospective tells its original story written by co-writers John Brancato & Michael Ferris in eye-catching high-concept fashions with respect to enterprising as daring producers Céan Chaffin and Steve Golin raising a 50-Million-Dollar production budget for 34-year-old David Fincher in order to let him exceed the page with exceptional-elegant cinematography by Harry Savides (1957-2012) and production design by Jeffrey Beecroft, who so fulminated ranges his art directions efforts from neo-realism to hyper-synthesizing science-fiction scenarios in future-wising "Transformers: Age of Extinction" (2014) for director Michael Bay, when here every single film-making department falls into place to the most intriguing as entertaining thriller of the 1990s.Futhermore supporting cast members, including Sean Penn as distressed as exaggerating brother Conrad over Deborah Kara Unger as poker-face mimicking even in jeans seductively-sexy Christine to Armin Mueller-Stahl as further trails-laying Anson Baer, when Michael Douglas delivers with all his skill of method to splendid moment of improvisition a picture to be marked as arguably the best of his now up to five decades spanning career.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)