Reindeer Games (2000)

I personally enjoyed it, maybe it's not a 9/10 but it's really good Final seines are amazingVery good action thriller kind of movie, it exceeded my expectationsfun and twisty, and I usually know what is the end gonna be like in these kind of movies, but I didn't expect the ending not like that. Don't have anything else to say, but watch it and you will not be wasting your time at allThank for reading

Another of my garage sale finds. I'm so pleased my total investment (loss) is limited to $1 and 2 hours.How could so many talented people have spent an estimated $42 million dollars on this hopeless and totally useless piece of junk? Film Tech 101--If you start out with a stupid story line, you will produce a stupid screenplay. Your stupid screenplay will flop no matter who the actors are trying to do the job.Suffice it to say that this is one of those films where you will appreciate having the fast forward button handy. If you don't walk away altogether. I know there are people out there who can't wait to see Ms. Theron in one of her usual silly sex romps. I can live without it. I would pay her extra to keep her clothes on for awhile. Her scene with Affleck is pornographic. That's cool, but you certainly don't need to attend university classes to pump on screen and there is no--no--way it should have cost $42 million to get to her swabbing Ben's mouth (literally) with her snaked tongue. I wanted to reach through the screen and pass Affleck a bottle of mouthwash.What is wrong with these people?

I needed to see Frankenheimer's final film. I was crushed. I have great difficulty understanding how the director of the subtle, lyrical thriller Ronin could have created and put his name to this mindless and miscast sequence of irrational plot twists and dull, meaningless physical beatings and chases. Plot twist is too nice a word for the unmotivated interminable reversals and red herrings. Viewers who don't always follow plot closely may easily lose track since it makes no sense.It tries and fails to be several things at once. It is primarily plot driven, but the plot is so ridiculous and full of holes and arbitrary reverses that one quickly ceases to bother predicting what will happen next. It's never surreal (might have helped) but it is so illogical. There is extensive brutality and gun play, but it is mostly of little consequence and seems more played for laughs. The entire climactic casino shootout seemed more comic than dramatic. Gary Sinese and his men's interminable beatings of Affleck have little dramatic impact after the initial one. The gun choreography is lazy with little sense of care or threat. There are moments meant to be comic, mostly Ben Affleck mugging, but virtually none of them work. There are multiple love affairs but these are just more red herrings to keep the plot tottering along--not one of them is convincing or deep.We're left with what I guess I'd call a dumb guy's popcorn heist movie along the lines of ; something that keeps us lurching forward with gunfire, the pounding score and the moving camera and letting us know that if we don't care about the current scene, something disconnected and brutal will be along in five minutes. CGI is missing; instead we get overacting. I cannot fathom how a script development process arrives at this conclusion. Nonstop unmotivated physical abuse is not interesting to most audiences. The lovers of cinematic mayhem will be so much happier with any Tarantino film or "The Raid" or even "Jack Reacher" where every fight means something and has a consequence. Here the violence just continues on repeat, with no one changing or learning or even dying for most of the picture.

This Movie could be used as Exhibit A in the Case, Ben Affleck accused of impersonating an A-List Actor. He is at His best when he does not distract. In this one he almost single handedly destroys what is already a Film struggling to maintain any credibility.It is unsure of itself and too much emphasis is put on things that are boring, or unnecessary and not enough on those that should be definitive in a Witty Action Thriller. The early Love Scenes are unconvincing, as is the Plot of misidentification and nothing seems plausible as the Setup begins to unfold.This is not the Director's worst Movie, for that see (or don't) The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996). Highly removed from His best work, this is watchable, but the cleverness is clunky and there are too many things that just don't flow. It hiccups its way through a twist or two or three or too many to count, but it is all for not as things just don't add up and the ride getting there is hardly worth it.