It had me fooled.

Rating: 8/10 (10 November 2002)

Possible Spoilers ahead

The fact that this film had me fooled right to the end is what made me give it 8 out of 10. I saw this after I had seen Se7en and the fact that Fincher had direct Se7en the most staid and plodding film I have seen in a long time and the awful Alien3. I was going to find it hard to make it through this one. Even though I found Fight Club fantastic Alien3 takes a lot of making up for.
After a slow start it gripped my up until the fantastic ending. When I just like Van Orten believed it was all real. Truly great workmanship and acting. Sean Penn is great and Douglas finally moves out of his fathers shadow for me and makes the film great.
To those who say "It would never happen in real life" or "You could never predict what he would do". I say. IT'S A FILM.
IT'S A FILM.
The whole idea of this film is to make you suspend your disbelief for 2 hours. and get you to see how someone might react if their every move was just part of some elaborate game that eventually has you believing it is real. As for those who say "I would have killed them all at the end" answer me this. If you have a brother (I have three), if you believed you killed him only to find out he is still alive would you instantly want to send him back to the grave.... I think not.

Great film. Suspend your disbelief for a while after all isn't that what the movies are about.