Funny Games

41

Warner Independent Pictures ( minutes)
and Michael Haneke
Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Boyd Gaines, Siobhan Fallon, Devon Gearhart , Tim Roth , Michael Pitt , Brady Corbet , Boyd Gaines , Siobhan Fallon , and Devon Gearhart

Rating: R for terror, violence and some langauge

Summary: In this provocative and brutal thriller, a vacationing family gets an unexpected visit from two deeply disturbed young men. Their idyllic holiday turns nightmarish as they are subjected to unimaginable terrors and struggle to stay alive. (Warner Independent Pictures)

Scott Tobias
The Onion (A.V. Club):
(100) A chilly and extraordinarily controlled treatise on film violence, Funny Games punishes the audience for its casual bloodlust by giving it all the sickening torture and mayhem it could possibly desire. Neat trick, that.

Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle:
(89) You can take a page from Wes Craven before he went flat and keep repeating, "It's only a movie; it's only a movie; it's only a movie." But is it?

Rene Rodriguez
Miami Herald:
(88) The experience of watching Funny Games, be it the original or this version, is never forgotten, whatever your ultimate impression of the film.

James Berardinelli
ReelViews:
(88) Funny Games is not entertainment but it is an experience.

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly:
(83) Can a movie be gripping and repellent at the same time? In Funny Games, a mockingly sadistic and terrifying watch-the-middle-class-writhe-like-stuck-pigs thriller, the director Michael Haneke puts his characters in a vise, and the audience too.

Rick Kisonak
Film Threat:
(80) By and large, reviewers have conceded that the picture is exceptionally gripping and suspenseful while deriding its moral subtext as a crock. The only explanation possible for such fuming pettiness, in my opinion, is the fact that Michael Haneke isn’t one of us.

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