
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 in to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and al... (Full plot summary below)
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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 in to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him.
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| Examiner.comChris SawinWell-written, expertly paced, and undeniably riveting, The Game is perhaps most impressive in the way it strips down the Nicholas Van Orton character. The whole process is very layered and each layer breaks down Nicholas even more than the last. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenThe Game is one of those films that requires the viewer to suspend his disbelief to a great extent, but offers pretty good entertainment in return for that effort. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie's thriller elements are given an additional gloss by the skill of the technical credits, and the wicked wit of the dialogue. |
| Hartford CourantMalcolm JohnsonDouglas finally musters one of his best performances to carry Fincher's essay on self-reliance to its exciting, if absurd endgame. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsTed Priggethis is the most thrilling thriller in a long while. Well, since Se7en. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaDavid Fincher takes the audience on a breathless, harrowing ride whose considerable pleasures are measured in dread and discomfort. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsScott RenshawIf this is David Fincher's idea of selling out, I hope folks are buying. We may be looking at the emergence of this generation's Hitchcock. |
| CinematterMadeleine WilliamsThe Game is a mind twisting thriller that keeps you guessing up until, and including, the end. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAn intensely exciting puzzle-gimmick thriller, the kind of movie that lets you know from the start that it's slyly aware of its own absurdity. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonIt's formulaic, yet edgy. It's predictable, yet full of surprises. How far you get through this tall tale of a thriller before you give up and howl is a matter of personal taste. |