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THE GAME
San Francisco investment banker (Michael Douglas) is a loner, a tough businessman whose heart is stuck on the bottom line. Stir him into a paranoid urban thriller in which he struggles against a conspiracy.
Does the threat come from family, like his shiftless brother (Sean Penn), or from others? For some puzzling reason, they’re out to destroy his sanity, to break or to kill him.
Then to add intriguing depth, toss in the Scrooge myth. This thoroughly unlikable man is visited on his birthday by some terrifying magic and made to realize he must reform his life.
Unfortunately, The Game is more thriller than Scrooge, full of mystery women, treacherous guys, shoot outs and spooky places. The writer director team of Seven conspire to make this film more portentous than it is. Fans of the genre will note that it also cheats with wild abandon. O.K. action thriller with a moral edge problem language, violence satisfactory for mature audiences.
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