Was expecting so much more

Rating: 4/10 (23 November 2008)

Michael Douglas acts his role well, as expected. However I found this film to be disappointing. 'The Game' started almost immediately, with no build-up, and very little history or depth to his character, Nicholas Van Orton. This meant, for me, that the ending was a let-down, because the film hadn't made me feel that Van Orton deserved it. Though there was an increasing feeling that something exciting was about to happen, for me it failed to deliver. The 'big twists' were rather predictable I found, and I was just left thinking, 'What a horrible thing to do'. I really feel that had the film-makers speeded up the drawn-out parts of the film, and spent a little more time making Van Orton look like the horrid guy he was supposed to be at the beginning, the ending would have made much more sense.