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The Game (1997) 7.7
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Metascore: 61/100
Reviews: 443 user | 143 critic | 19 from Metacritic.com Wealthy financier Nicholas Van Orton gets a strange birthday present from wayward brother Conrad: a live-action game that consumes his life. Director:David Fincher |
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Cast
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Young Nicholas
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Nicholas' Mother
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Maria
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Maggie
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Daniel Schorr | ... |
Himself
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Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad, who has gone long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving up to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him. Written by Anonymous
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The Game...You Just Lost See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for language, and for some violence and sexuality | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
12 September 1997 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Igra See more »Box Office
Budget:
$50,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$6,400,000 (Non-US) (31 October 1997)Gross:
DEM 12,612,526 (Germany) (16 January 1998)Company Credits
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Written by Tony Hatch
Performed by The New Classic Singers
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under license from EMI-Capitol Special Markets
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In searching for a perfect engine sound for Nicholas' 7 series BMW, one member of the sound editing team located in Sausalito, CA actually borrowed his high school friend's Dinan modified BMW 540 for half day. See more »Goofs
When Nicolas is watching the film strip, he gets fed up and stands. He looks back and clearly is standing in the way of the film's projection onto the screen, but when the screen is shown there is no shadow. See more »Crazy Credits
The opening credits shatter in the form of jigsaw puzzle pieces in Reference to the Film's title. See more »Soundtracks
"Call Me"Written by Tony Hatch
Performed by The New Classic Singers
Courtesy of Capitol Records
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This movie was made not long after the movies "The usual suspects" and "seven" were made. Both of them had what is called a "surprise ending". I'd bet a year salary that ,after seeing the success of those films, some greedy producer told his stuff "I want you to make me this kind of a movie!!" so the writer first thoght of a surprising end and then had built a movie around it, I don't buy for a second all the other analysis of the movie about "inner layers" or some other crap. This movie was meant to make some money by having a surprise ending and that is all. Well, don't get me wrong I love those kind of movies but I hate when I'm presented with something so illogical and insulting to the intelligence. let me explain why: No one is that smart period. no one can predict what someone is gonna do so accurately, it is IMPOSSIBLE. Imagine a crime scene filled with potential clues, it might take a lot of time figuring out the relevant clues and figuring out who is the killer. Now suppose you know exactly who did it and why, so now (suppose you want to look smart) you know exactly what clues are relevant and how to build the chain of evidence that will lead you to the cuLprit. do that and all the other detectives will think you're the smartest man in the world - It is very easy to know what to do in retrospect. and that is exactly the error of the movie - the writer knew the ending and builT the entire movie around it ,because he knew the answer it is easy to reconstruct the questions! so it easy for him to forsee the hero's actions. but ,as I said, No one is smart enough in real life. You think that someone might be? well. for example, there is a famous problem in physics called the 3 body problem: you have 3 bodies revolving around each other and you have to know (knowing the start \ point) their position after an arbitrary time. the equations governing their movement aren't very complicated but even the most powerful supercomputers cannot do that in a reasonable time. only 3 bodies!!!
And in the movie we have much much much more complicated thing -real people, the real world etc. so You're gonna tell me that a small group of actors can predict all what the hero would do in such accuracy? don't make me laugh.
As i said this movie was made to make money by having a surprise ending and It has done so and let all laws of logic be gone to hell.
this movie was awful and an utter insult to the intelligence of anyone with I.Q over 60.