Michael Douglas plays Nicholas Van Orton, a Scrooge-like San Francisco investment banker following in his father's Scrooge-like footsteps. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself …



This riveting thriller stars Michael Douglas as a successful businessman who is always in control until an unexpected birthday gift destroys everything in a rush of devastating events. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! | Rating: 3.5/4 The bright spot of Fincher's third film is the convoluted nature of all the elements, creating a world that not even the audience is sure what's real and what's not, until the bitter end.

The dark streets and even darker characters scream Fincher's directing style and delivers a different take on the suspense thriller. Engaging '90s thriller has lots of violence, profanity. A classy thriller, and yet further evidence of how Michael Douglas was able to nail these WASP-in-peril roles. February 28, 2018 This is the intrigue (or start of it) but also the main problem with the plot, no one would do that, especially someone like Van Orton with tonnes of money and a grand reputation to lose. Michael Douglas takes control of his spiraling character, Nicholas Van Orton, like no one else can, bringing shades of his Oscar winning performance of Gordon Gekko to a darker and more suspenseful level.
I must confess to not liking the ending either, it twists more than a helter skelter but instead of leaving you in awe it leaves you thinking Fincher went one step too far.

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I don't like the ending of either movie, but this movie has originality and some of the best atmosphere and imagery in movies. The Game Critics Consensus.

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did he forget he owned that building? | Regardless of how far one chooses to buy into The Game -- and the ending ambiguously suggests that it could go on and on -- there is no doubt as to Fincher's staggering expertise as a director and his almost clinical sense of precision.

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This 1997 thriller is fairly entertaining nonsense if all you're looking for is 128 minutes of diversion. | Douglas finally musters one of his best performances to carry Fincher's essay on self-reliance to its exciting, if absurd endgame.