Game Night (15)
Directors: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein.
Comedy: 4/5 Very good lots to enjoy
Summary
A group of suburban couples regularly challenge themselves to games at the house of ultra-competitive Max (Jason Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams). When Max’s smooth, successful brother Brooks (Kyle Chandler) turns up, he hosts his own game night at his swanky new pad.
Upping the ante, he says one of them will be ‘kidnapped’ and the ‘game’ will be to locate them. When a group of kidnappers break in on events and take Brooks, the team set about finding him…but is this for real or not?
Review by Jason Day
The millennial generation are roughly defined as people with a birth date in the 1980's up until the mid 1990's. Not quite the 'I want it now' snowflakes who came afterwards, but still with their own psychological and cultural neuroses.
I should be careful where I go with this review as I am very nearly a member of the millennial cohort myself.
But Game Night is a neat sending up of these people (me?) and their outlook (mine?), a group so concerned with themselves and professional achievement and accomplishment they are almost clinically terrified of any committing themselves personally (surely not...me!)
Bateman and McAdams make a smashing pair as the leading couple of a group of winning-obsessed people whose regular game nights have taken on an almost mythical importance.
The laughs are frequent and frequently very funny, wrapped up in a film not only staged like a game but one that also sounds like one.
For more, read the full review: http://bit.ly/filmgamenight
Cast & credits
1hr 40mins. Aggregate Films/Davis Entertainment/New Line Cinema. (15)
Producers: Jason Bateman, John Davis, John Fox, James Garavente.
Writer: Mark Perez.
Camera: Barry Peterson.
Music: Cliff Martinez.
Sets: Michael Corenblith.
Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Sharon Horgan, Billy Magnussen, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Michael C. Hall, Danny Huston, Chelsea Peretti, Camille Chen.
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