He Wants to Play a Game...

the 2004 movie that started the series, about lessons learned in life; the hard way. Danny Glover plays a detective on a hunt to find a madman who’s victims deaths are just they’re failures of an unsuspecting unwilling game. The game depends on how they view life and what they choose to take for granted; setting up the room they die in and how they get helped before they even realize it. The main game taken place in this film is with two people in it, trapped in a room with a chain on their foot and a dead man in the middle of them. Both have to cooperate in order to play the game, and both of them have secrets, form both the world and each other. This film came out before there was hype in the series, when it was just a horror film with not that big of an audience. I decided to give it a chance because I haven’t seen a film idea like this in a new movie and I also had some money to blow on movie tickets. (Trying to help out a smaller twin type theater that ending up closing anyways. Great.) I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, and thought the plot stuck, not too many holes in it or boring scenes of dialogue. The movie starts already into the game and preludes it within the next 30 minutes; how each person got there along with flashes of they’re past. Just enough to give you some idea of what they do in life. The idea of a killer who doesn’t actually kill anyone brought curiosity to see and gave me the idea of a good horror film series in my lifetime. Able to catch the last episodes of Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street bummed me out and after the shocking ending of this film; I looked forward to the next installment.

John: [on videotape] Hello Amanda. You don't know me, but I know you. I want to play a game. Here's what happens if you lose. The device you are wearing is hooked into your upper and lower jaw. When the timer in the back goes off, your mouth will be permanently ripped open. Think of it like a reverse bear trap. Here, I'll show you. There is only one key to open the device. It's in the stomach of your dead cellmate. Look around Amanda. Know that I'm not lying. Better hurry up. Live or die, make your choice.

8/10