“Game Night” Critique Filled with action, and some edgy humor, “Game Night,” a film starring Jason Bateman (Max) and Rachel McAdams (Annie) as well as a few other average Hollywood actors, makes this intriguing and surprising film into a highlight of the romantic comedy genre. It extends the thought of a romantic comedy from being the basic “chick-flick,” to something “the guys” might watch. It incorporates action, crime, adventure, comedy, and romance into one coherent piece. The film begins with a quick progression of time, beginning with the start of a new love affair, blossoming into a relationship based on a mutual love for games, and ending in the present day office of Dr. Chin, a reproductive endocrinologist (fertility doctor), who’s …show more content…
Her ability to take on a role and add a subtle cunning and brazen attitude is impressive, whether she plays a devoted and loving wife (Game Night), a mean high school gossip girl (Mean Girls), or a worrisome “love interest” (Sherlock Holmes) her ability to add to her character is astounding.
The directors of the film, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, chose a great cast to make this film. Each character inserting their own identity to the role they play. This helps the director’s purpose in setting out to make a unique film, one that will entertain the masses with unexpected turns and twists, and is comedic in nature. They accomplished that and more, using actors such as Jesse Plemons (Gary) and Kyle Chandler, who are often in more serious, non-comedic movies, to play large parts in this one. Daley, a fairly new director, not well- known or very accomplished in the movie making industry, as a director or writer, took on this piece with Goldstein, who is known for his writing contribution to “Horrible Bosses,” and “Horrible Bosses 2.” Like these two movies, “Game Night” is similar in that they are both action, comedies that have some romance inserted. Although these two films written by Goldstein are not nearly on the same level as “Game Night,” not nearly as watchable, or funny, even with Bateman’s dreadful personality living it