The Gist
Nicholas Van Orton is a super rich banker. He is spoiled, self-centered, and pretty depressing. He’s also a complete jerk. For his 48th birthday, his confident and slightly screwy brother Conrad gets him an invitation to a live-action game. Soon, he’s sucked into a twisted game with no warnings and no rules. He’s playing for his life, and he’s trying to find a way to get out, before he loses the game.
What We Think
What We Think
Reviewed by Living Destiny
Run Time: 129 Minutes
Rating: R
My dad made me watch this movie last night. I thought it would be a stupid movie, and it sounded really weird. He said if I didn’t like it we could change it, and I fully expected to be doing a review on When In Rome right now. I was so very wrong.
This movie totally sucked me in. I literally couldn’t look away, or even speak, from five minutes into the movie onward. It was strangely addicting. And the reason it’s so addicting is because it’s confusing. Mind-blowing and confusing. I still don’t understand half of it, but in a good way. There are so many twists, I think the plot actually makes a circle if you draw it out. It kept me on the edge of my seat too. There were some parts that were so freaky and intense, I was hyperventilating. (Just kidding).
The whole concept of ‘the game’ was very sketchy to me. I couldn’t understand why anyone would go along with it, but I guess if I was in that circumstance then I might check it out. Or maybe not because it was super duper creepy. The main character, Nicholas, went along with the whole thing. I don’t know if that was because of loyalty to his brother or his stubbornness but it certainly got him into a mess. He was a weird character, way too paranoid and cranky, but there was something likable about him too. A lot of the characters were like that, very twisted or messed up in some way, but also likable in some other, basically indescribable way that was all their own.
This movie definitely tapped into my freak-out senses. It’s not like a horror movie, some pop-out-from-under-the-bed thriller, but it is a thriller/mystery in its own little way. It was more of a tension-freaky, like an I-don’t-know-what’s-going-to-happen-next-but-there’s-creepy-music-and-I’m-freaked-out sort of thing. Very intense.
The plot simply can not be described. My only advice would be to not blink, and pay attention the whole time, or you will miss something. This is not a movie you can come in halfway through and understand (believe me, my grandma tried and it failed). My only real complaint is that there were a lot of swears (although I have to admit that after it was over I didn’t say anything, because anything I could think to say was riddled with the same profanities the movie was so heavily laced with). This movie was mind-blowing, and kind of epic, in its own twisted little way.
Real Teen Rating~ B+: Worth watching
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