The Game
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
Our read · The Game (1997) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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