Movie Review: The Game (1997)

Alright, as I said before on the blog, here is the second review of a David Fincher movie......The Game. Now The Game is a Fincher film that I feel doesn't always get the recognition that it deserves. It revolves around an investment banker named Nicholos Van Orton (Michael Douglas) who's brother gives him a birthday present which is a gift-card thing to a business called CRS. He goes to use the card, and the business takes over his entire world and tries to murder him on various ocassions. Now to compare this movie to Seven (SE7EN) would be fairly hard because this film doesn't really have that feeling to it. Seven was a movie in which we watched things constantly unfold. And yeah in this movie we do see things constantly unfold, but they are through the introduction of new characters and settings. Seven was a story that was revealed through one location and one storyline that involved one character as a serial killer. Now this movie is REALLY entertaining. Especially that scene where he has to jump over those dogs that are kept up in those yards. This movie never gets boring. We always want to know what happens next. Now one of the things that this movie does really well, is it blurred the line between dream world and reality. Almost like that of Christopher Nolan's Inception. Although The Game is far less intricate and deep as Inception. Now what do I like about this movie? Well, everything I just listed are things that I like about this movie. One other thing that I like, and this only comes up once or twice in the film, is how the movie switches genres through the traps that CRS throws at Douglas's character. It's scary when the clown is found in the driveway, which makes it a horror movie. Then it's an action movie when we have all those chase episodes. Then, it switches to a mystery movie as Nicholos Van Orton tries to figure out what CRS is really about. Overall, The Game is a good movie despite the fact that it gets a tad too long in the end. Three stars.