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The Game

1997

David Fincher

Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn ...

7.2

81,648

Mystery. Thriller Director David Fincher followed the success of his dark and atmospheric crime thriller Seven (1995) with another exercise in stylish film noir, this time lifting the pallid atmosphere a notch to indulge in a fast-paced trip through the cinematic funhouse. Michael Douglas plays Nicholas Van Orton, a Scrooge-like San Francisco investment banker following in his father's Scrooge-like footsteps. On Nicholas's 48th birthday (the age at which ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Crafted with a commanding, aloof precision (...) there is no doubt as to Fincher’s staggering expertise as a director"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Douglas gives an intricate, intensely involving performance (...) 'The Game' has a sunny, redemptive side that ill suits Fincher"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The thriller elements are given an additional gloss by the skill of the technical credits (...) The plotting is ingenious and intelligent"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Fincher's film has its expertly sneaky moments but just as many senseless ones. It also grows less gripping as its arbitrariness becomes clear"	NEU
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[It] 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 (...) don't get your hopes up"	NEU
United Kingdom	Andrew Collins Empire	"Fincher's worthy and equally dark follow-up to 'Seven' (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"The best-looking studio thriller of the Nineties (...) Douglas connects with the role by never overtly seeking our sympathies"	POS
United States	Paul Tatara CNN	"'The Game' is slick and violent, but you don't feel anywhere near the amount of menace that seems to be intended."	NEU
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"A stylish, ingenious thriller, thoroughly entertaining, but fundamentally hollow"	NEU
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"Though the film's 'message' about complacency transformed by chaos and uncertainty is hackneyed, the alarming twists of the witty, ingenious script (...) hold the attention throughout."	NEU

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