Rotten
The film outstays its welcome and is more than a little too knowing in its manipulation of standard audience expectations for the genre.
David Rooney, Variety
Funny Games
1997 · 1h 49m · Not Rated
Drama, Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Michael Haneke
Overview
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
73%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Brilliant, radical, provocative, it's a masterpiece that is at times barely watchable.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
This beautifully acted and paced German variant of Cape Fear ... is tricked out with a number of Brechtian devices to catch audiences in a voyeuristic trance.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten
The basic puzzle is why this sophisticated director chose this tired formula.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Fresh
The emotions of the victims are clear and complex -- their conflicts dominate our experience of the narrative as powerfully as all the devices telling us to look elsewhere for the movie's themes.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
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