peru-resh So basically why I was tempted to write this review is because so I see so many people hating this movie so much. I understand, you don't like reality and want to live in a fairy-tale with your pink glasses on? Carry on. This is all this movie is about. People reviewing this movie as one of the worst because it is violent? You must have been warned! That this is a horror/thriller film, if you hate the genre, so don't even watch it! Why would you rate it then? So maybe you think this is some cheap Hollywood horror story about demons and ghosts? Maybe you thought it is a chasing-shooting criminals police story? No it is not. This movie is a reflection of the sick world we living in. You can never be safe.This movie is a senseless act of violence? If you don't get the meaning, it does not mean that it is meaningless! I've seen somebody comparing this movie to Natural Born Killers and reviewed both as meaningless and the worst movies ever seen. So you actually think that every act of violence has to be justified, dont you? You don't care watching a movie about war, when heroic americans are killing innocent vietnamese or muslims in the east. You don't care when your superhero kills innocent policemen who maybe have a family and children and just doing their job to catch them? You're just all ignorant and hypocritical. This movie is all that about. Maybe you are lucky to be rich and you don't see what happens in the world of the poor and the middle class. You may be a beta male living in your mansion and all you care is your wristwatch and a tennis course. What do you think would have happened if there were 2 black guys instead trying to get help from these people in this movie? If they are lucky enough to get this deep into the neighborhood unnoticed, as soon as they rang a bell, the police would have been there. Now these two white psychopaths just got inside the house, because they came just like they would themselves. Kindly and politely asking for help, same category of richmen, with 2000$ worth of tennis clothes on. That is this movie all about, that you think you are rich and safe in your house, millions of dollars worth, but you're not. If someone knows your rules, they can reach you really easy and punish you, face to face, as a beta male you can't do anything. What about looking at the pop culture nowadays? There are teenagers rapping about how dealing drugs, being in a gang, having gun, having a prison time are so cool. Youngsters love them so much. Same as in the movie Natural Born Killers, how some psychopath couple went on their bloody rampage through the country and became idols for the youth because of the press. I think something like this actually happened in USA before this movie. Of course, being edgy is always cooler than studying and working all your life. If you had any brains of your own in this life, you would understand why it is so hard for young people to accept the fate of your life in the modern society. Especially, if you are born in middle-class or lower.

sedwards7 There's no actual story here. It's a "character" study of two violent, evil sociopaths who psychologically and physically torment an innocent family. That's all that happens. The family never has a chance. You keep hoping, but they are trapped. This just goes on and on and on. It's like watching a cat slowly kill its prey. It's actually well done. It's creepy, the suspense is quite masterful. For those who like to watch the ultimate story portraying ugly and cruel don't care about the good guys winning....this is for you. I felt ripped off because I kept watching expecting the "situation" for these innocent people to reverse. It never did. The writer of this must be somewhat sadistic himself. There are those who will like it, I'm sure, it is well done for what is is. Ick.

grantss The original Funny Games - German, made in 1997, written and directed by Michael Haneke - was great. Haneke decided to remake the movie for US audiences, and promptly screwed it up. Instead of thought- provoking, this is pretentious. Instead of innovative, this is second hand. Instead of suspenseful, this is boring. Maybe it was because I had seen the original so knew where it was going, but the plot was slow. Direction was ponderous and listless.Worst of all was the casting. Michael Pitt spells disaster for any movie he is in. Wooden, pretentious, irritating. Brady Corbet follows his lead. Naomi Watts does her usual over-acting. Tim Roth is a superb actor but had nothing to work with and deserves a lot better than this.

Samuel Harding Funny Games was made as in insult to those that love all things sick in their movies. The movie itself is relentless and brutal, evoking a reaction that other films in its genre struggle to, That being dread. Funny Games calls you a horrible person, while delivering an experience that impacted me more than a lot of other horror films. It excels at terrifying me. It's a hard film to watch, but it brings up questions that I think any horror fan should answer within themselves. Why do I watch this, what is the part of me that enjoys this?