Is It Always a "Game"?

Rating: 6/10 (8 February 2007)

As David Fincher's matured, he's become a more accomplished storyteller. That said, he still doesn't know how to end a film. With the exception of Se7en, they all end with surprises that call into question everything we've watched. Hooray, Dave, you had us leaning one way while the story went another. In essence, Fincher--for all his visual and directorial gifts--seems content with simply confounding our expectations--with telling us that "things are not what they seem--or, in other words, with making star-studded, big-budget two hour "Tales From The Crypt". Sad that he and, fellow filmmaker, M. Night, aspire to nothing more than being the new millennium's Agatha Christies.