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The Game

What do you get for the man who has everything...?

1997 · 2h 9m · R Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by David Fincher

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Overview

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

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76%
Tomatometer
Rotten

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.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

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.

Todd McCarthy, Variety
Rotten

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

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

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.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

A crowd-pleasing pip most of the way.

Mike Clark, USA Today

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