This is your game......

Rating: 9/10 (18 July 2013)

Nicholas Van Orton is a wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is a loner, even spending his birthday alone.
On the year of his 48th birthday, the age his father committed suicide, his brother Conrad, who absconded long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to an entertainment known as CRS.
Giving up to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and weird and bad things start to happen to him.....
It was going to be very difficult for Fincher to capture the magic he made with se7en, but my gosh, he gets really close with this under seen gem. This has probably got to be his most under seen work along with Zodiac, and its one of his most intriguing.
Douglas plays this sort of role in his sleep, and Orton is not a million miles away from Gekko or the guy from A Perfect Murder, in other words, he plays the rich man effortlessly.
Once the Game gets into full swing, it never really let's up until the end, and the viewer really has to suspend disbelief to gain full enjoyment of the movie, because if you start to question the movie, you will find all sorts of silly plot holes that could ruin the movie.
You could see the movie almost as 'A Christmas Carol'. Orton is Scrooge, a lone man who doesn't accept gifts from family or friends, and after a revelation on his home one night, his life takes a turn. We see his childhood, and his present, and finally when Orton wakes up in the coffin, what his future has become.
All in all, its a fascinating movie, really worth seeing, even if it does resemble a British mini-series from the eighties called 'the one game'