Game Movie Reviews

Borrowing its set-up from the Agatha Christie bestseller And Then There Were None, director Abhinay Deo's Game opens with a millionaire inviting four strangers to a private island, where he reveals that each of them is hiding a dirty little secret that connects them to each other. Over 70 years since it was first published, and many screen adaptations later the book still offers a premise that's ripe for reinterpretation. Game, unfortunately

It's hard to believe Farhan Akhtar is behind this film, Javed Akhtar has scripted the lyrics and Shankar Ehsaan Loy have given the music. So many stalwarts and so little to savour. Can't remember a single song that was incidentally shot in a slipshod manner, including the item number by Sarah Jane Dias. And can't help wonder how Farhan could sign off a film which lacks both soul and substance. Okay, Game has the looks of a stylish film and is peppered

When I was a kid, my mom would make up all sorts of bedtime stories to put me and my tediously inquisitive mind (Where did tomatoes originate from?) to sleep. She'd weave a yarn of implausible possibilities that got more and more ambitious with every turn. New characters would appear from nowhere while old ones would acquire unnatural strength. But because of her animated narration and continuous conviction, the impractical twists

Abhinay Deo brings years of his advertising experience to Game, which is his debut feature release as director and like a true ad man, he strings together imaginative visuals with bursts of gripping set pieces but is utterly at sea when it comes to holding attention for a feature-length story. A romantic-whodunit-action movie, Game, is a rocky, unconvincing gamble for such a massive canvas. The culprit is a usual suspect: the screenplay. A billionaire grieves

The narrative of Game is as much inconsistent as the continuously changing geography of the plot that keeps shifting from Thailand, Istanbul, India, UK to Greece. Under the guise of an espionage thriller and a slick murder mystery, Game ends up being a formula flick driven by ancient clichéd conflicts like badle-ki-aag and jaydaad-ki-ladaai. Multi-millionaire Kabir Malhotra (Anupam Kher) sends handwritten invites calligraphed in chaste Hindi

At one point in Game, Kangna Ranaut, playing Sia, an officer with something called the International Vigilance Squad, exasperatedly asks: What the bloody hell is going on? My sentiments exactly! Game, written by Althea Delmas Kaushal, is a whodunit that starts out on a beautiful island in Greece. A billionaire invites four strangers to the island and then reveals that his intentions are far from friendly. You might recognise this basic plot line

The film predominantly suffers from a lack-lustre script (Althea Delmas Kaushal) which often borders on the corny.

For its entire obsession with ambiance, Game is, at heart, a frustratingly old-fashioned murder mystery. If you’re the kind who follows the genre keenly, by second act, you’ll have figured out the wild card and the culprit. Question is do you want to?

Barring some astute twists in the second half, this GAME isn’t worth playing.

It's back to the theatres after a sabbatical. GAME is crucial for Abhishek Bachchan. Also for director Abhinay Deo, this being his first release [though he had signed DELHI BELLY much before he made GAME]. So let's figure out how exciting this game is...Recall Vijay Anand's whodunit TEESRI MANZIL. Also recollect Vijay Anand's crime thriller JEWEL THIEF. Now reminisce Raj Khosla's suspense thriller WOH KAUN THI?. Also revisit Biren Nag's

Speed limit. Staged accident. Acting natural. Awfully nice. Game just added one more to the list of oxymorons — boring thriller. Ambitious in scale, disastrous in everything else, Game is all style, little substance and very little sense. It’s a film that takes itself too seriously and is yet never serious enough to have a plot that is credible and edge-of-the-seat. Debutant director Abhinay Deo sacrifices tension and thrill at the altar of flashy camera

Early on in the movie we are introduced to four different characters coming from four corners of the world - England (Shahana), India (Jimmy), Thailand (Boman) and Turkey (Abhishek). Anupam Kher lives off a Greek island wanting to avenge the murder of his daughter (Sarah Jane). With the help of his assistant (Gauhar Khan) he plans to interrogate and punish the four invitees on his island. Through out the film there are flashbacks

`Game’ is a good Bollywood example of a bad Hollywood film : all slick surface, nothing underneath. What sets out to be a racy thriller soon turns into a series of picture postcard locations where a bunch of people come and go, fruitlessly and cluelessly, leaving you in a state of weary astonishment : is this really from the House of Farhan and Ritesh, proud producers of new age Bollywood? Actually, I’m being unfair to bad Hollywood thrillers

Boman Irani is Thai by nationality. Though his impeccable Hindi may not suggest so. Not just that. He is in fact the front-runner to the prime minister's post in this East Asian monarchy. You see. I do. Boman appears quite early on in this flick, and you figure right there that this picture is a figment of too unreal an imagination for India's GDP growth to match. Geography is for jokers. Boman's Mr Ramsay receives a letter from a multi-billionaire

On the whole, Game is a weak film with dull chances.

‘Game Over’, though, is what you really look forward to.

Game is a murder mystery with Abhishek Bachchan, Jimmy Shergill, Boman Irani and Shahana Goswami as suspects and K...