Boring, uninvolving, silly and pointless. Need I go on?

Rating: Null/10 (12 May 2002)

'The Game' is yet another stinker from one of the most overrated film makers in Hollywood today, David Fincher. I could forgive the innumerable plot holes and general dumbness of this alleged thriller if I could actually feel some interest in pompous businessman Nicholas Van Orton's (a particularly dull performance from Michael Douglas) fate. And I could overlook Fincher's time wasting pretensions if it actually succeeded as a Hitchcockian man-on-the-run roller coaster ala 'The 39 Steps' or 'North By Northwest', but this overblown rubbish is such a chore to sit through that you'll breathe a sigh of relief when it finally ends. After that you'll ask yourself what the point of it all was. And you know what? There isn't one. Wanna absolutely waste two hours of your life? Then 'The Game' is tailor made just for you!