Synopsis
When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.
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Cast
- Naomi WattsAnn Farber
- Tim RothGeorge Farber
- Michael PittPaul
- Brady CorbetPeter
- Devon GearhartGeorgie Farber
- Boyd GainesFred
- Siobhan Fallon HoganBetsy Thompson
- Robert LuPoneRobert Thompson
- Susi HanekeBetsy's Sister-in-Law
- Linda MoranEve
- 89
Austin Chronicle
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? - 88
Miami Herald
The experience of watching Funny Games, be it the original or this version, is never forgotten, whatever your ultimate impression of the film. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
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. - 80
Empire
A stylish, darkly satirical horror-thriller, raising serious questions about Hollywood’s sanitisation of violence. - 80
Film Threat
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. - 50
Boston Globe
If this is daring in theory, it's a failure in practice. Exactingly well-made, the movie is grueling and unpleasant in the extreme - that's the point - but it's also working from a specious premise, that film-school Brechtian devices can bring on mass enlightenment. - 50
Chicago Reader
It’s one thing to make a movie filled with mayhem and then implicate the audience for watching it; it’s another thing entirely to come back ten years later with the same movie, hype it with a marketing campaign, and try to implicate the viewer again. One nice thing about America is that you can’t be tried twice for the same crime. - 50
Chicago Tribune
Funny Games is fundamentally a bourgeois exercise in authorial sadism. As the methodical games grind on, the suffocatingly beige and white surroundings start to look like a mausoleum.
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