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all the ingredients are still
th'ere, but it’s just taking lon-
ger for them to combust, and
seeing that slow burn simmer
manages to be both harrowL
ing and hilarious at the same
time.
“The Game” rewards rapt
attention and repeat view-
ings, as it leaves countless
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Mullen
little clues as to its true na-
ture in the figurative corners
of your eye, and what makes
it so challenging for me to
encapsulate as a reviewer
is that, while its template is
little more than a boilerplate
plot for an especially expan-
sive genre thriller, it’s the
sheer ambition of its execu-
tion that transforms it into
the sort of film that can’t be
described or recommended,
so much as experienced first-
hand.
By the time you reach
what you might believe to be
the final denouement (not a
redundant pairing of words
here) of “The Game,” you’ll
already have had multiple
rugs pulled out from under
you, even before the last false
bottom falls out from beneath
your feet.
However much “The
Game” messes with your
head, though, have faith that
it’s not merely an exercise
in mean-spirited nihilism,
because all those reveals and
reversals and switchbacks are
indeed leading somewhere,
and its punchline was enough
to make me literally laugh
out loud.
Review: It is a modern-day twist on Uncle Scrooge
All this, plus appearances
by Peter Donat (Fox Mulder’s v
dad from “The X-Files”) and
James Reborn (returning to'
my reviews for a second week,
in a row after “Scent of a
Woman,‘” and delivering one
of the most darkly comic lines
in “The Game”), so what more
could you want?
I’ll get more Christmasy
next week, I promise.
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