Fincher's best is an underrated gem

Rating: 10/10 (29 September 2017)

The Game is an incredible ride. If it were a Twilight Zone episode, it would be the best Twilight Zone episode by far. I do not understand the negative reviews and if you're a student of cinema like me then you shouldn't understand them either. What Fincher was able to create here was pure and utter genius. The writing, the atmosphere, the dialogue, the score, the cinematography and the brilliant performances are as close to perfection as you can get. One of the complaints I've heard about The Game is that the movie isn't realistic and goes too far. Well, today we have technology that is far more impressive than anything seen in The Game. I came to realize long ago that the world is usually a lot more complex than we realize and with money and an endless amount of resources you can get some pretty amazing things done. That being said, the goal of the movie was never to be realistic. It was rather to create an exciting ride into the realm of cinematic magic, a world where reality and fiction dance together as elegantly as possible. That is what we saw here and it was done masterfully.