Gripping Game From Start To Finish

Rating: 8/10 (13 October 2014)

Plot In A Paragraph: Michael Douglas is Nicholas Van Orton a rich man in obsessive control of his life. Van Orton's younger brother Conrad (Sean Penn) visits him and announces a birthday present: "The Game,'' "It will make your life fun again,'' he is promised, but that's not quite how he sees it, as soon everything starts to fall apart.
There are a few plot holes as many of the things that happen to him are implausible or even impossible, but so what? The events are believable in a nightmare scenario
Sean Penn is as reliable as always, Deborah Kara Unger is a decent supporting player, but James Rebhorn is not given as much to do as one would hope.
As for the main star, Michael Douglas is superb at playing men of power, he starts the movie like Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street" but ends up like his character in "Falling Down" who's name escapes me. Douglas is perfectly cast in the role. He can play smart, cold, angry, desperate and frustrated. And he does them all superbly.
One of Douglas's best, and one of Fincher's best too.