Game Night Short Movie Review

Game Night is a funny and exaggerated comedy about a mysterious murder party that goes wrong. There is a lot of violence; most of it is played to laugh, but things can get really bloody. The characters use firearms and there is a fighting club in which the rich pay the poor to fight among themselves. A person is hit by a car, someone is stabbed, and a man is sucked by a jet engine and mashed. Once again, all this is reproduced with laughter, so that the spectators who can differentiate between comic violence and let's say the Scorsese violence, can probably handle it.

There is also a frequent strong language ("fuck", "shit", "ass", etc.) and some sexual content, which includes talking about sexual acts, fertility treatments and references to a character who tries to practice oral sex with him same. Other scenes show kisses / groping, as well as a little drink. Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams co-star.

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The film is directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein a couple of filmmakers who have worked in different fields within the film industry together and separately. It emphasizes in its works, mainly, the cinema of comedy. They began working together as screenwriters in the comedy "Horrible Bosses" (2011), a successful film starring a large number of stars and whose plot focuses on a group of friends who devise a plan to kill their bosses. That same year they wrote and directed the comedic short film "Audio Tour" (2011). Two years later, they wrote the screenplay for The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), a comedy starring Steve Carell (among other big stars) that focuses on the world of magic shows. They also collaborated in the script of "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" (2013), sequel to the successful animated film "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" (2011) that adapted the homonymous book by Judi Barrett, an animated parody of the films of catastrophes. This title was followed by "Horrible Bosses 2" (2012), sequel to the aforementioned comedy in which they also participated as screenwriters. Three years later, they debuted as feature film directors with the comedy Vacation (2015), a road movie "gamberra" with familiar overtones whose plot focuses on a family that travels across the country to reach the Walley World amusement park. After this title, Daley and Goldstein collaborated with the script team responsible for the script of "Spider-Man: Homecoming" (2017), second reboot of the Spiderman franchise and first installment of the superhero that is included in the Marvel film universe.

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SYNOPSIS

A group of friends meet every week for a game night organized mainly by one of them, (Brooks). In one of those encounters, the game becomes reality and these friends are involved in a real murder. Sarah, girlfriend of one of them creates a parallel plan for that night that will mainly affect Brooks.

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MOVIE INFO
Rating: R (for language, sexual references and some violence)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery & Suspense
Directed By: John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein
Written By: Mark Perez
In Theaters: February 23, 2018
Runtime: 100 minutes
Music: Cliff Martinez
Studio: New Line Cinema
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Jason Bateman, Jesse Plemons, Kyle Chandler, Kylie Bunbury, Lamorne Morris, Michael Cyril Creighton

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