The Game
1997
**
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, Carroll Baker, James Rebhorn, Peter Donat, Armin Mueller-Stahl
On his birthday, a wealthy but unhappy banker receives a voucher for a mysterious game organised by a company called Consumer Recreation Services. A few days later, his perfect life begins to fall apart, or is CRS behind it all? David Fincher's follow-up to the superb Se7en is a pointless, gimmicky, and boring thriller in which the protagonist is the only person who doesn't know what's going on. May I point out that the film's title is The Game. In terms of plausibility, the whole thing is absolutely ridiculous.
