Kim Gentes

Put down that remote! This movie ROCKS!

If you didn't like this movie, you should check your pulse. Take a slight grain of salt with this, and you will be on a thrill ride that is a weird blend of tender inner pain (and recovery) and car-crashing blow-up scenes. Directed by David Fincher, The Game is easily one of the top "off-the-beaten-path" movies of all time. In a movie that has action, suspense, romantic thread (albiet weird), emotional appeal, and even a surprise ending, one would think the director went way over the top with this movie. One would be wrong! This and the Martix are my top "see-and-see-again" movies! Oh ya, did I mention the surprise ending?! Finally a surprise that actually works!

Michael Douglas plays a self-absorbed power mover in New York City with all you could ask for, except an actual life. As the story unfolds, his birthday centers his attention on the painfully unreconciled suicide of his father, at least in Douglas' character's mind. A birthday present from his brother (Sean Penn) puts him in the throws of a "game" in which his whole world is thrown upside down. His hope is that he can just survive the "game" and find out what is behind it. The movies true story line is not in how clever Douglas character is, or how he survives one mindnumbing assault after another-- this story is about personal resolution of internal pain. If you are in the mood for thrill-ride suspense, emotional healing, with a touch of romance thrown in (via the chilling but beautiful Deborah Kara Unger) well then this is your movie. Strange but true. Trust me on this one, you will love it!