This ain't Tiddleywinks...

Rating: 9/10 (21 October 1999)

"The Game" is one of those movies that I rave about after the initial viewing and then loses credibility every viewing thereafter. This dark and unrelenting journey through loss and manipulation had me on the edge of my seat in the theater. All the performances are first-rate, and the movie goes everywhere you could possibly want to go in an action/suspense film. Then I saw it again on video, and I started seeing the plausibility factor and the suspension of belief dwindling away. It's the same thing that 1999's "ARLINGTON ROAD" was criticized for: NOBODY CAN FORTELL THE FUTURE THAT ACCURATELY WITHOUT A LITTLE TIME TRAVEL GOING ON!!! However, it's still a romping good time the first time through. (***1/2 for the initial viewing...minus 1/2 every viewing after that).