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The Game (1997)

The Game is a 1997 American thriller film directed by David Fincher, starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn, and produced by Propaganda Films and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. It tells the story of a wealthy investment banker who is given a mysterious gift by his brother—participation in a game that integrates in strange ways with his everyday life. As the lines between the banker's real life and the game become more uncertain, hints of a large conspiracy become apparent.

The Game was well received by critics like Roger Ebert and major periodicals like The New York Times, but had middling box-office returns compared with its $70 million budget and the success of Fincher's previous film Seven (1995).

If you are thinking this movie is about certain game we play in our day to day life for entertainment, Don't think any kind of certainty about this, you are completely wrong. It is the game which is played psychologically and can destroy a person both mentally and physically.
screenplay is so smoothly written that you cant go in your own world for a second, you start living inside the movie. The direction is too good & David Fincher has taken care of every thing so precisely that it cant look like fake. The cinematographer has done his work so well that every frame is unique and makes you to feel and makes you to watch anything going inside the frame. Editor too have done his job precisely. for e.g. he put two type of sequences, one slow and another fast which makes movie stable, every shot he cut in a way that each frame for a sequence match with each other.
But there comes a point when you start thinking what going in it, some of short sequences start jumping over your head. At some point it is slow but later it match the speed of the movie.
If you are a movie geek than watch it at 2am and if you want to watch this movie for some kind of fun than watch with friend.