glad to see people are thinking on their own a bit

Rating: 9/10 (30 December 2000)

I was surprised, after reading some of the comments, how much most everybody thought this movie through when all the confusion was over. It made me happy to think that a lot of people are still capable of absorbing material without blindly accepting it. We all aren't completely mindless fools yet. This is somewhat encouraging, keeping in mind how American education (among others) has been steadily dumbing down over the years. I read that the average vocabulary of a 14 year old has decreased by something like 4 times from what it was about 50 years ago. Anyway about the movie....it was quite suspenseful to my 16 year old mind which hasn't seen many of the movies of the past with similar approaches and tricks. I liked all the little plot twists and the acting was excellent. However, in my opinion, this was a movie, that one can pick apart in terms of realness and believeablility, what with all the simultaneous occurances and split second decisions that somehow coincide with something else that is suppose to happen. Basically, in real life the whole concept behind "the game" would be a very hard one to achieve......too many things could go wrong. This doesn't bother me too much though because I have always thought that movies' main purposes are to entertain and provoke thought, and THE GAME reached great success in both of these areas.

If anyone reading this has totally contrasting views to what I said I would really like to hear them so email me. I too am a dumb youth of America and need to be enlightened.