
In this English-language remake of a deconstruction in the way violence is portrayed in the media, a family settles into its vacation home, which happens to be the next stop for a pair of young, articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood.... (Full plot summary below)
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In this English-language remake of a deconstruction in the way violence is portrayed in the media, a family settles into its vacation home, which happens to be the next stop for a pair of young, articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood.
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| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasA chilly and extraordinarily controlled treatise on film violence, Funny Games punishes the audience for its casual bloodlust by giving it all the sickening torture and mayhem it could possibly desire. Neat trick, that. |
| Miami HeraldRene RodriguezThe experience of watching Funny Games, be it the original or this version, is never forgotten, whatever your ultimate impression of the film. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovYou can take a page from Wes Craven before he went flat and keep repeating, "It's only a movie; it's only a movie; it's only a movie." But is it? |
| Film.comEric D. SniderSome provocative filmmakers seem intent on irritating or turning off the audience. With Haneke, I get the feeling that once you understand what he’s up to, he’s glad to have you in on the joke. He certainly goes about executing it in a masterful way. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFunny Games is not entertainment but it is an experience. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanCan a movie be gripping and repellent at the same time? In Funny Games, a mockingly sadistic and terrifying watch-the-middle-class-writhe-like-stuck-pigs thriller, the director Michael Haneke puts his characters in a vise, and the audience too. |
| EmpireDamon WiseA stylish, darkly satirical horror-thriller, raising serious questions about Hollywood’s sanitisation of violence. |
| Film ThreatRick KisonakBy and large, reviewers have conceded that the picture is exceptionally gripping and suspenseful while deriding its moral subtext as a crock. The only explanation possible for such fuming pettiness, in my opinion, is the fact that Michael Haneke isn’t one of us. |
| Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzBrutal, sadistic yet well-made statement about how violence is portrayed in media and our reaction to it. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaWatts, who is one of the film's executive producers, brings a taut intelligence to the proceedings, but her character, like Roth's, is more archetype than actual person. |