Movie Review: Funny Games

Nothing can prepare this cultured, successful family for what they are about to endure once Paul and Peter enter their lives. By hook and by crook these ivy league well-mannered snobs engage in a viscous assault on the trio that gets creepier by the second. Whether the family can survive the high class slavery these creeps put them through is anyone’s guess as the situation gets grimmer and nerves unravel.

Deadlines come and go but you will be left both shaken and stirred by the fear conjured up in this movie. Australian treasure Naomi Watts (King Kong) looks good but gets quite the make-over when she happens upon this dynamic duo who delight in tormenting their victims with tender loving care. Man of the hour Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction) plays Watt’s husband who also gets under the skin of these well-turned out educated baby-face terrorists.

Cast as the tag team bad boys Paul and Peter are Michael Pitt (Finding Forester) and Brady Corbet (Thirteen). Onlookers will be freaked out by the bad nature of the tormentors whose methods of inflicting pain seem lifted right out of the Al Quaida playbook.

People wanting to see a hostage-taking in the making without your typical Hollywood ending may take a gander on Funny Games, a deadly serious movie that’s intelligently written with very disturbing characters beneath all that first class upbringing.

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