A Terrific suspence thriller. Like a Diamond only has a very minute flaws but still shines briliantly

Rating: 8/10 (6 October 2019)

The Game is a masterpiece in premise, deception and suspicion. The viewer along with the lead character Nicholas is left helpless throughout the film struggling to make sense of it all.
Fighting to preserve his life after agreeing to participate in The Game.
What do you get the man on his 41st birthday, a man who seemingly has everything? Appreciation for what he does have and a renewed respect for what can happen.
A birthday gift from his brother in the form of a ticket to ride the rollercoaster of his life.
Nicholas begins as a smug arrogant highly successful business man looking condescendingly at everyone especially his brother seemingly reckless fun loving unsettled unaccountable runaround.
After agreeing to participate in this theme based game. He doubts skeptically the effectiveness, but plays along out of love for his misguided brother.
His little confidence in his brother has to be totally diminished in order for this game to be successful.
A startled Sean Penn reveals to Nicholas that he screwed up, that the party planners of the game have an ulterior motive that they want Nicholas' money and will stop at nothing to get it and make Nicholas dissapear.
Now Nicholas is running for his life as it dissapears before his eyes he turns into a fugitive with nothing left but his fleating sanity. His money and everything vanishes.
Nicholas now must try to track the people down in a race against time before they kill him.
Cornering Christine a team member in a staged apartment he gains information of the exact situation and why.
But they are on the run again as bullets fly and Christine takes off.
Nicholas finds the building of the company running the game.
While being shot at by a squad of uniformed company shooters.
His brother now assumed dead. He runs through a breakroom of
familiar faces all actors of the game. Including Christine.
The uniformed squad proceeds to not only shoot at him but seemingly also kill randomly anyone else in the room.
He grabs Christine and heads for the roof.
On the roof he locks the doors.
The team now pounding at the door soon to be breaking it down.
At gun point he demands an explanation.
Noticing that the gun he has is real she frantically through a hand held radio is telling the team that he is going to kill her.
She pleads with Nicholas trying to convince him it was all a part of the Game. None of it was real. That his brother is on the other side of the door with a bottle of Campaign .
At this point the viewer is just as confused and intense as Nicholas.
What to believe?

The only flaw in this multifaceted diamond of a movie that I can see is the question of real bullets or not.
I really enjoyed this movie in its cleverly written suspense and action drama .
The surprise ending is the best .
I highly recommend .
I had to check spoiler alert having mentioned a lot of detail but trying not to give too much
A highly detailed fast paced action thriller not bogged down or the need for lengthy dialoged explanation.
This movie is riveting in suspense. You'll want to watch it again like getting off a roller coaster.