Classic psychological underrated mystery thriller, Michael Douglas best!

Rating: 10/10 (19 May 2016)

A classic mystery thriller the best of Michael Douglas he ever made with David Fincher I love this film to death! It is my third favorite Michael Douglas film. This is my Favorite David Fincher Flick. The first time I saw it I fall in love with it and I kept watching it, since my teen years it is my favorite Michael Douglas film. The Game (1997) is a terrific mystery thriller and it is David Fincher's third feature film and very underrated among st his work. This is a thrilling mystery, that keeps guessing you if it is everything real or just a fiction. David Fincher and Michael Douglas did a terrific and outstanding job. I remember seeing an VHS in the bookstore on a sell page, I wish I would bought this film on VHS than, but lucky I have it on Blu-ray disc. This was a hit in 1997 back than when the movie come out. I even have a co worker who went to see this film in a movie theater. I am going to say it again I love this film to death and I love Michael Douglas!
"I'm being toyed with by a bunch of depraved children..."
Plot: Wealthy San Francisco financier Nicholas Van Orton gets a strange birthday present from wayward brother Conrad: a live-action game that consumes his life.
THERE ARE NO RULES IN THE GAME. And that will make life very difficult for Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas). a successful businessman who is always in control. Van Orton lives a well-ordered life - until an unexpected birthday gift from his brother (Sean Penn) destroys it all. Van Orton has been enrolled in a game - "a profound life experience" - that begins quietly enough but soon erupts in a rush of devastating and bizarre events. Like it or not, he must either win the game or lose control of everything in his life.
The movie is a mystery about a game from a company called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS) it is a game like a vacation for holidays, just the vacation comes to you. This is a birthday gift from Connie (Sean Penn) to his brother Nicholas (Michael Douglas). When the game starts you keep thinking this is for real and people are really trying to kill Nicholas to get his money. First they screwed up his brother and now they want to screw him over.
This is very, very well directed thriller and Michael Douglas best performance ever. I found the ending to be brilliant and makes sense. Deborah Kara Unger was extremely gorgeous and very hot sexy babe! I was even in love with her after seeing her in this movie. The scene in which protagonist Van Orton finds a life-size clown doll in his driveway was ranked #44 on Bravo's list of The 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
For a David Fincher fan like myself, there are movies that I actually like they are: Se7en, Zodiac and of course Panic Room (2002) this was the film I went to see it in the movie theater in June 2002, when it was by us released in Slovenia it was actually the first Jodie Foster film I saw in a movie theater. But The Game will always be my favorite David Fincher film and Michael Douglas's third favorite film. I also do think this movie is very underrated and some people don't like it. Well I don't like Fight Club and I am probably the only one , but The Game I love to death. I heard years ago that Michael Douglas had a fun making this film with David Fincher and he would love to do another thriller with Fincher again, if Fincher would offer him another movie role.
My favorite scene in the film is with the taxi cab when the taxi driver leaves him alone the car and the car drives on the pier in the water and Nicholas open's the window with that hook he received for the game package. I love when operatives of CRS are using suppressed Heckler & Koch MP5K's automatic machine gun to shoot the apartment of Christine (Deborah Kara Unger) and opens fire on Nicholas. Nicholas leaps off the skyscraper and crashes through a glass ceiling, but he lands safely in an airbag. There he finds his family and friends awaiting his arrival and The Game is revealed to have just been a game. The accounts have not been drained, the gun was replaced with one firing blanks, and his brother is alive.
I am giving this film a perfect 10 out of 10 which I do believe is a classic David Fincher's underrated psychological best mystery thriller. Mine favorite Michael Douglas film of all time I love it!
The Game is a 1997 American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher, starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn, and produced by Propaganda Films and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. It tells the story of a wealthy investment banker who is given a mysterious gift: participation in a game that integrates in strange ways with his everyday life. As the lines between the banker's real life and the game become more uncertain, hints of a large conspiracy become apparent.
10/10 Grade: Bad Ass Seal Of Approval Studio Studio: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Universal Studios Starring: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, Peter Donat, Carroll Baker, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Anna Katarina, Charles Martinet Director: David Fincher Producers: Steve Golin, CeÃ¡n Chaffin Screenplay: John Brancato and Michael Ferris Rated: R Running Time: 2 Hr. 9 Mins. Budget: $50.000.000 Box Office: $109,423,648