Reindeer Games (2000)

Good idea lost in the noise

Charming and brutal

Absolutely the worst movie.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

I personally enjoyed it, maybe it's not a 9/10 but it's really good Final seines are amazingVery good action thriller kind of movie, it exceeded my expectationsfun and twisty, and I usually know what is the end gonna be like in these kind of movies, but I didn't expect the ending not like that. Don't have anything else to say, but watch it and you will not be wasting your time at allThank for reading

Hello, I have watched this film about 121 times. I truly have, I even have it saved under my DVR to watch when I need a Gary Sinise pick me up!! This is a great movie, I love the part GS plays and how hes this Gorgeous bad a.. along with his minor league trucking buddies trying to set a plan in place to rob the Casino.GS appearance in this film is superb. The dark Walmart clothing , the cut off tank top (revealing his sexy arms) LOL, and that sexy dang sandy blond shoulder length hair is all to sexy and a awesome change from his earlier and later films. Hes usually more a cut close type of guy but in this film hes got a nice diff look to him that makes my undies moist!! I love u GS!!The only reason I give this film a 9star is because GS DIES. NOT COOL. Great film.

Wow. I'm pleasantly surprised. Put this in to satisfy different tastes in small group--figured it would be acceptable to everyone, but, like vanilla ice cream, pretty much ordinary and forgettable also. The production values were only on par with TV and the acting was not particularly compelling, but it kept moving forward in unexpected ways and legitimately held everyone's attention. Nobody was disappointed, and while no great film, it's more than watchable. The ending slightly disappointed me, because that is not quite how I would have handled the money situation, but then I think that's probably because Ben Affleck's character is a better person than I am.

Unbelievably implausible action crime thriller where Affleck, the film's hero, seems to be the luckiest released convict on the planet considering how much time he spends with a gun pointed at him, always escaping a sure bullet to the head, must help a group of nasty, vile thugs (Gary Sinise, Danny Trejo, Clarence William III, and Donal Logue) rob the wintry casino of Dennis Farina (his recent death was the reason I watched this again, to tell you the truth). All of this comes about when Affleck (substituting for a man (played by James Frain) stabbed with a shiv in prison, who was his cellmate) meets the author (Charlize Theron) of letters pinned for Frain, read to him. Affleck himself fell in love with Theron through those letters, but it isn't long before he's accosted by Sinise's brood and expected to help them rob a casino. This film has two/three twists that challenge any existing credibility that remains left over from entire ridiculous sequences that rescue Affleck from certain death, and there are multiple, long-winded expository back-and-forths between heavies and Affleck endlessly explaining "Haha, I got you!" The last one involving Frain and Theron was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I could barely swallow the "James Bond" delays in killing off Affleck, with the film's villains finding convoluted means to bump him off just so the screenplay could allow him plenty of time to come up with an escape plan. All of this said, time has mellowed me quite a bit towards Affleck. I like him a lot now, and his performance in the film didn't bother me at all. He has some fun actors to work off of. Sinise lays it on mighty thick, but the part requires lots of psychopathic tendencies. Of course, Clarence seemed to remain in employment just because he could play with relative ease those cold-blooded heels that accompany the likes of Sinise's ringleader…he always had the look casting director's must relish when a human monster is required. Logue seems out of place if we look at his career after this particular film, while Trejo can just appear and convince as a bruiser willingly following this rogue's gallery of homicidal scumbags. Thankfully, Frankenheimer's direction has lots of energy and pizazz attempting to compensate for a screenplay that tests our tolerance for character stupidity. Theron, like she was in 2 Days in the Valley (1996), is a feast for the eyes and libido at this point in her career, but the twists regarding her ulterior motives as it pertains to the heist were just too much for me personally. She can play the bitch, though; there's no denying that. At least, the ending is gratifying in that all the criminals get their just desserts; and they all deserve what they get for being so dumb.