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Year:	1997
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	David Fincher
Genre:	Paranoid thriller
Starring:	Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn
Rating:	5/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/
Tagline:	Players Wanted.
Favourite line:	"Where'd y'all go ya' motherfucking frat-boys. You better hide…"

David Fincher's paranoid extravaganza sees Michael Douglas playing That Michael Douglas role, the smarmy executive.

Douglas is Nicholas Van Orton, a multi-millionaire investment banker who should want for nothing in life but, in reality, lives a bleak, lonely existence, estranged from his wife, seemingly without friends, the only company he has are the staff at the mansion he calls home where he lives, alone.
Everything changes when his brother buys him a birthday present inviting him to take part in a game run by a company called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS), a game seemingly without rules, the point of which will only be discovered as the game plays out, in reality, in real-time.
Reluctanctly he agrees and, before long, he's on the run for his life, his assets being stripped from beneath hos feet, bank accounts drained and not a soul on Earth he can trust.
How can he win a game he doesn't even begin to understand?

It's edgy stuff, almost psychadelic in its drug-fuelled mayhem, seemingly taking place behind a fog of hallucinogenic vapours and at no point are we, the viewer, let in on the gag. It's breathless fare, and really gets the pulse pounding.
Douglas is his usual self, all dripping oily suave, and Unger is a good foil.
Yet to see a bad Fincher movie but then, I haven't seen Benjamin Button yet.....