A very original thrill ride that can make you think about what matters in life.

Rating: 9/10 (28 December 2018)

Some movies have a distinct tone and rhythm, and you just get immersed in them, and it's that proverbial "emotional rollercoaster." These are the best movies, in my opinion. The Game is one of those. The music really helps with achieving that immersion.
In the end, it is hard not to go over the movie in your mind, consider if the plot holds together when you finally discover what is happening, and ultimately it does not entirely hold together, it has contrivances necessary to realize this story and requires you to suspend disbelief and/or not think too hard about the plausibility of some sequences. I mean, Forrest Gump made you suspend disbelief about a lot of stuff, but it was also a great movie.
If you consider folk tales, they are stories that have exaggerated or unrealistic or supernatural elements, so you must suspend disbelief somewhat to enjoy them. And we can and do suspend disbelief, and thus we can and do enjoy them. But some movies try to present a plausible reality, like a "what if this really happened," and when THOSE movies cheat with obvious fake and contrived plot elements, it knocks us out of the story and makes for a bad movie. Well, I think the Game and Forrest Gump and Fight Club and some other movies along those lines (maybe the entire James Bond series) are sort of like modern folk tales... If you judge them against realistic dramas or thrillers, their contrivances will seem like a flaw. If you consider them like, say, a Paul Bunyan story, you don't immediately hate it because there's no such thing as a giant blue ox, right? The point is, the Game has contrivances, but only those needed to tell this very subtle and complex folk tale. (I realized Legend of Bagger Vance is probably another good example of this kind of movie.)
The great thing about the movie is that tells the story of a man who has all the material trappings of success, but he's basically a prisoner of his own life, having gotten unknowingly trapped into plodding along like an ox turning a millstone with no way to escape because his own mind is the trap. There's a deep truth here, that people get into their own ruts and opportunities to truly step out of our rut and change direction and gain a better perspective on life, are rare. You watch the movie, see the main character unhinged from his ordinary life to where he can have a transformative moment, and you maybe can have a little echo of that yourself, thinking about your own life, how you might be in a rut and not taking time to appreciate what really matters. That's a pretty big feat, and not many movies can do that.
I saw another reviewer who wrote the movie is good once, but has no re-watch potential, but I completely disagree, and have seen it at least 4-5 times.