It looks stunning, with every shadowy scene seemingly dipped in ink and some rapid-fire edits balanced by more experimental touches (super slow-mo squash, anyone?).

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2021

The more we invest in Nicholas' bank of experiences, the more we display our willing complicity with, even subservience to, a system that lets cocooned elites merely play games (on an urban, even international scale)

| Jul 27, 2020

The rational side of my brain can pick this movie apart until all that's left is incoherent threads. The movie-mad side, happy to lose control, had a hell of a good time.

| Feb 28, 2018

This 1997 thriller is fairly entertaining nonsense if all you're looking for is 128 minutes of diversion. But if you'd like something more from David Fincher, the director of Seven, don't get your hopes up.

| Oct 4, 2011

Regardless of how far one chooses to buy into The Game -- and the ending ambiguously suggests that it could go on and on -- there is no doubt as to Fincher's staggering expertise as a director and his almost clinical sense of precision.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

The film's 'message' about complacency transformed by chaos and uncertainty is hackneyed...

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 12, 2002

The picture provides Douglas with one of his best roles. If he doesn't quite reach the bizarre heights he achieved in Falling Down, The Game makes its own demands.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Douglas disintegrates beautifully against the pressure of a constant and unknown threat, played out by a deliciously sinister support cast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2001

Douglas, who delivers a new shade of cruel elegance each time he plays another urbane monster, is the ideal star for this vigorously contrived thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Fincher's worthy and equally dark follow-up to Seven.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Douglas is the right actor for the role. He can play smart, he can play cold, and he can play angry. He is also subtle enough that he never arrives at an emotional plateau before the film does, and never overplays the process of his inner change.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A crowd-pleasing pip most of the way.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

It's like the most hideously overproduced episode of The Twilight Zone on record, complete with a last twist that pretty much reduces what came before to soap bubbles.

| Jan 1, 2000

It's not for everyone and it doesn't make much sense when you stop to think about it, but it's still a lot more fun than Parcheesi.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Fincher is still working on the assumption that he has better things to do than entertain an audience. Which would be fine if he weren't drawn to such schlocky material.

| Jan 1, 2000

The Game is an 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 (which is why it can then get away with it).

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 12, 1997