Sell all you have run and see The Game

Rating: 10/10 (17 January 2013)

My younger brother, whose Stanford-Binet IQ score is 145, rarely shows enthusiasm about anything. That being said, when he does occasionally get excited about something it's for a good reason, and I've never known him to be wrong.
One quiet evening back in 1997 I received an email from him that said, "Sell all you have run and see The Game." There wasn't time for me to pull off a yard sale and make the 9:00pm show, so I kept my stuff, but I went straight to the movie theater.
129 minutes later I walked out of the theater with all of my mental and emotional faculties tied in a wonderful knot. I was bewildered, shocked, happy, and totally satiated by the single best cinematic ride I had ever been on.
Hollywood labels movies by genre, so you will find The Game listed under drama, mystery, thriller. Today, sixteen years later, we would probably say psychological-thriller, but combine all of these genres, and you still haven't rightly labeled this movie. Twice, in the years since The Game was released, I have met a person who hated it, but coincidentally both of these people had an IQ that hovered around 70, I'm just saying...