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Funny Games

You must admit, you brought this on yourself.

2008 · 1h 51m · R Horror, Thriller
Directed by Michael Haneke

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Overview

When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.

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52%
Tomatometer
Fresh

It's not a reassuring vision but that's not the name of Haneke's particular game.

Wally Hammond, Time Out
Rotten

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.

David Ansen, Newsweek
Rotten

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.

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten

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

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten

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?

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

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