A Great Psychological Thriller That Keeps You Guessing Throughout

Rating: 9/10 (4 March 2005)

Anyone loving mysteries will love this movie, "The Game". It truly keeps you guessing until the rolling credits at the end. It is the much more serious version of the same story told in the Bill Murray comedy movie "The Man Who Knew Too Little", which was released at the same time, 1997. In both, a brother wants to give his brother an exciting birthday "present": the giving brother hires a theatrical group to secretly entertain his brother on his birthday. Along the way, however, things go horribly awry from the planned script. Through most of the movie, the brother being entertained doesn't know exactly what is happening to them, except in Bill Murray's case, he was told that he would be dealing with a theatrical group, but winds up in a "real" spy story, thinking all along he is still dealing with actors. While in Michael Douglas' case, he doesn't know what is going on for sure. I would watch both movies. They both are quite entertaining.