Game Night
2020movie
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Four friends gather to celebrate graduating from college when a supernatural force puts an end to their plans for the future.
Four friends gather to celebrate graduating from college when a supernatural force puts an end to their plans for the future.
Game Night ending works because it flips every assumption the movie builds. Just when you think you’ve figured out who’s running the game, the movie pulls the rug again. And the final twist?Brooks admits his life is way more criminal than he ever let on. This moment ties the stakes together while giving every character space to shine. And it leads directly to the emotional core of the ending. Max and Annie: The Real Win of Game Night Ending. Under all the twists, the movie has always been about Max and Annie.
There’s a morbid undercurrent to Game Night, which was directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the duo behind the Vacation remake, and written by Mark Perez. But the movie’s not interested in exploring the dark side of gamification or what happens when life becomes a contest to be won. (There’s a running gag about rich people staging actual fight clubs for their own amusement, but it’s a goof, not a Purge-style critique.)
