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Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday, he gets a strange birthday present from wayward brother Conrad: a live-action game that consumes his life.

Genre:

Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Actors:

Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn, Peter Donat, Carroll Baker, Anna Katarina, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Charles Martinet, Scott Hunter McGuire, Florentine Mocanu, ...»

Director:

David Fincher

Country:

United States

Release:

1997

IMDb:

7.7

Quality:

Duration:

129 min

Geoff Andrew

The film's 'message' about complacency transformed by chaos and uncertainty is hackneyed...

February 09, 2006

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Maitland McDonagh

Sure, it strains credulity, but it's clever, well-paced and builds to a spectacular -- if not altogether satisfying -- conclusion.

October 04, 2011

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Brian Costello

Engaging '90s thriller has lots of violence, profanity.

February 16, 2016

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Todd McCarthy

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.

March 26, 2009

Matt Brunson

This is one of those movies that's so tightly written and densely plotted, it leaves no room for error -- or viewer queries. Unfortunately, the questions will start flying even before the picture's over.

September 26, 2012

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James Berardinelli

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.

January 01, 2000

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Chris Sawin

Well-written, expertly paced, and undeniably riveting, The Game is perhaps most impressive in the way it strips down the Nicholas Van Orton character. The whole process is very layered and each layer breaks down Nicholas even more than the last.

October 06, 2012

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Mick LaSalle

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.

June 18, 2002

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Roger Ebert

Douglas is the right actor for the role. He can play smart, he can play cold, and he can play angry. He is also subtle enough that he never arrives at an emotional plateau before the film does, and never overplays the process of his inner change.

January 01, 2000

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Matthew Sorrento

[N]ifty filmic style and crackpot sensibility.

October 18, 2012

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

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.

October 04, 2011

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