Platypuschow Relationships are a challenge at the best of times, what they are not are games and that's how our leads treat one in this dumb little tale.Vivicia Fox & Morris Chestnut are a couple having all kinds of problems, instead of rectifying them like adults they both play mind games with one another and demonstrate exactly how pathetic some people are when it comes to such things.The very concept is offensive to anyone with 2+ brain cells to rub together and is a fantastic example of why divorce rates are so high if folks really do approach relationships in this way.Also starring Gabrielle Union this sure as hell isn't a romantic comedy due to the lack of romance and absolutely no comedy whatsoever.The Good:Nothing springs to mindThe Bad:Stupid conceptFox is still terribleThings I Learnt From This Movie:People are stupid.....wait.....no already knew that

elshikh4 For me, I didn't see anyone or anything here but the delicious Gabrielle M. Union. It's not the idea that this movie is entirely not my taste, also it wasn't basically an entire movie for God's sake! I believe it was some TV flick, or TV 2 episodes with No attraction at all. Not to mention its stars as well. Suffice it to say the magical 2 names : (Morris Chestnut) and (Vivica A. Fox)…Feel the pain already ??!! Now here you are 2 leads that can play indeed (play Hell cleverly !). The first one is too unbearable like someone heavy setting happily on your chest, and the second just sucking out the remaining air in the same time ! Specifically whenever (Chestnut) is on-screen, in here or at any other work, I feel a waterfall of silliness bursts into my house to sink me and anyone watching! Did you see his photo on the movie's poster : DISASTROUS !Plus, this script wasn't as different as it wanted. The comedy was nonexistent or rather DEAD ! And the direction made it really tasteless. Actually the whole deal fails to make you interested (I left the movie at its first half hour then forced myself to rerun the rented videotape to complete it !). I hated the most a scene in which the classy businesswoman (played by Vivica A. Fox) walks at poor apartments and complains – to the screen ! – about how all the black people raise their voice in inappropriate way !?? Aside from Fox's too ridiculous, too provocative way at delivering those lines, I got extremely bugged out of this scene's message; I mean was it a gentle satire so the black people must keep their voices down (in their homes!?), or was it just a way to make clear how Arrogant character like Fox's is ?! To tell you the truth; for most of the time I felt that the movie's makers are the actual arrogant ones!Simply the success of (Waiting to Exhale) in (1995) launched a long series of black movies after (mostly romantic comedies or movies with social commentary) that deal with black people, having a cast of black actors. Few were good, and many were horrible. I don't need to clarify to what category (2 Can Play That Game) may belong ! These movies deal with the problems or the concerns of the American black community's middle or upper class ONLY. Perhaps as a late reaction to the way the black character always has been portrayed for years and years in Hollywood, or a way to make these movies in the contemporary Hollywood anyhow ?! So for a Blaxploitation fan this is maybe the closest you can get to The Anti-Blaxploitation ! Or maybe the most "white" black movie, and I do mean it in a bad way. My Love (Morris Chestnut) did another crime to humanity in the same year, from the same trend, named (The Brothers) which was like a manly version of (Waiting to Exhale) yet awful and unwatchable.Still the only watchable, amusing, and meaningful thing in this short dud is one hell of an intro for the SEXY Gabrielle Union walking unforgettably in tight outrageous red dress (she's the one who makes it outrageous I can tell you that !) while the dear camera is shooting her – in slow motion – from toes to head to observe how hot she is and how naked her navel too ! At that point I, of course with all the male viewers that got the chance to watch the movie on video; woke up, rejoiced, then pressed "rewind" to enjoy this rare moment again AND to assure that IT'S the same movie that I was watching ! Anyhow, Nothing of this heat wave continued, while Nothing of the whole movie eventually was as very good as it. Damn, even Gabrielle Union herself wasn't given fair screen time either ! All in all I think that one of the Board's messages, here on the IMDb, said it right : "Did anyone like this movie???" Enough commenting !

pvdugas Two Can Play That Game Morris Chestnut/Vivica A. Fox/Anthony AndersonI recently rented this disappointing movie from first time writer/director Mark Brown. I make it a general practice to rent on DVD. Once watching the movie, I then review the Director's commentary. I couldn't get through the second scene of the commentary. Mr. Brown is definitely new to the game of film making.While the movie was well casted, Morris Chestnut, Anthony Anderson, Monique, Bobby Brown, Gabriella Union (who was miss-casted) and others, Anthony Anderson saved the movie. Keith (Morris Chestnut) is a successful Attorney and Anthony Anderson is his colleague and friend. Anthony's character coaches Keith in dealing with a `smarter than the average woman'.The idea of a trimmed down and toned Vivica A. Fox speaking directly into the camera throughout the entire movie, turned me off. While the idea of this successful Black woman, living large and in charge, the epitome of respect from her girlfriends is appealing – the character falls real short. She spends the entire movie giving advice as if it came from that stupid book, `The Rules' yet at the end (when she realizes the big plan may have backfired - she flips the script and punks out) To be honest I was very disappointed with the ending.Mr. Brown's vision was to show the games we play in love. The games played in this movie are some of the oldest tricks in the book and ones I would think a professional woman wouldn't need to play. A disappointing first effort by Mr. Brown. I can say this much, it was much better than `How To Be a Player'.

Are-Jay This movie is a good movie that comically shows the mindgames that go on in everyday romantic relationships. It shows what happens when you fail to communicate properly and begin to read too much into things that may or may not exist.Vivica A Fox plays an arrogant conceited woman who finds her boyfriend cheating on her (so she thinks). He was just dancing with a co-worker who happens to be an attractive female. There was no sex or kissing, but Vivica read too much into it and wanted to teach him a lesson.She hosts a series of mean heartless games to play upon his insecurities and emotions for her persoanl kicks. It may be a movie, but it happens in everyday real life with women, and not just African American women either. Instead of trying to talk about what is bothering her, she resorts to trying to get even like a little high school girl would. She plays the part of a professional well off woman who is independent and has it all.....but where is her security and ethics! She spends too much time trying to get even and teaching him a lesson at the point where it consumes all her time.Vivica is getting sadistic pleasure from torturing her boyfriend until the tables turn on her. He shows up to a party with another woman, and Vivica is livid. She is so jealous and insecure, it will make your head spin. He just went to the party to move on with his life, and this bugs her. Women say they want a mature man who can just move on and leave them alone! BULL! Women want a man who will crawl after them to nourish their badly depleted ego's and restore the self-esteem they are badly lacking in the first place. Vivica is hoping that he will be waiting for her at her place after the party and is so sure of it.....but she is sadly disappointed when her home is empty and he isn't there for her. The story has a happy ending where she sees him in a club and tries to get him back and he feels sorry for her sorry ass and takes her back.....but not so many men are that forgiving.She talks to the camera in this movie and tells all the "so called rules" of relationships. One was that "The first one to break it off wins the game!" She was the first to break it off, but she is the one who lost the game that she created in the first place. He moved on and found someone else, and she was hurt and bothered by his mature justified actions. Woman can be so selfish and childish when like this.This movie is a good lesson for women to watch and learn from. If you mistreat your man, he'll move on sooner or later and find someone better than you. Then it is too late and you'll be crying you sorry little eyes out like the baby that you are in the first place. Playing games never wins anything, it just makes a loser out of you! My ex-girlfriend was exactly like that, but I never gave in to any of her mindgames and she lost the best thing that ever happened to her. Then she began stalking me until I put a restraining order on her. She thought she was being too smart by being like this, but the more mature person wins in the end (and finds a better person like I did!) The whole time she wanted me back, it was all a game to nourish her ego in front of her loser friends (much like Vivica in this movie). Playing games is not about love, its about control, and that is mentally unhealthy. If you love someone and want them, tell them and show it! Otherwise you will lose the best person you may ever meet in your life, and will never fill that gap ever again! It may be a comedy for a movie, but it is real! Games do not pay! I am not cutting down all women out there --- because there are lots of nice wonderful loving ones in this world who deserve good men! But the nasty ones who play emotional headgames for pleasure are pure dirt-bags who deserve what comes to them----Unhappiness!