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Reindeer Games (2000)
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Movie Review by Zara 
January 24th, 2007
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Hot chocolate and pecan pie
Oy. Where to begin? How is it that this movie can contain two Oscar winners and a multiply Oscar nominated actor and still be so f*cking ludicrous? I suppose one might assume that they all were duped by what looked like a clever script on paper only to be sidelined by a shiftless director after contracts had been signed and production had began. One might even make the argument that the roles were taken for the money since they all had a minimal amount of exposure by that time. But still... why the hell would someone want to be involved in this movie unless they were on a dare?
The movie focuses on a car thief (Affleck) during his last few days in prison where he's finishing up a cruel 5 year sentence for grand theft auto. How a guy can spend 5 years in what is proclaimed to be one of the roughest pens and still look like a polished and manicured metrosexual is beyond me, but let's play along for the sake of the story. His cellmate talks of a gorgeous woman who is waiting his release, a meeting that is cut off at the pass when he greets an untimely demise after a cafeteria food fight. (So he steps into his place and her panties as a result.) Things go even further downhill from there when the young woman's brother hijacks their romantic rendezvous and ropes him into assisting he and his band of bumbling co-workers with robbing a casino on Christmas Eve.
You might be wondering why I'm recommending a movie that I quite clearly hold a negative opinion about. A bad movie that isn't even so bad that it's good, REINDEER GAMES holds an allure to me simply for the star power. I remember renting this when after it had breezed through theaters and into my local video store, knowing full well that it would suck. Theron hadn't yet won her Oscar and Affleck was still dusted with the powders of would-be super stardom. Watching it again after time has passed has made it even more laughable to me. It's a fantastic reminder that we should never hold any actor in particularly high regard. Idolization of anyone will come back to bite you in the ass eventually, so it might be best not to play that kind of reindeer game.
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 | Thom
Apr 17, 2008 2:24 PM
also wrote a review of Reindeer Games 
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| See my review. This really is a blunder of epic entertainment proportions; it cracks me up that people get away with these types of career foul-ups in the film business with nary a hic-up. See Brendan Fraser ever since School Ties. |
 | Tim
Feb 13, 2007 1:57 AM
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| This movie sucks and I thought Lt. Dan Taylor lost his sea legs??? That always confused me. |
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