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Game Over, Man!

Published May 24, 2018

Game Over, Man!

Film info

  • Title Game Over, Man!
  • Director Kyle Newacheck
  • Year 2018
  • Run time 1hr 41m
  • Genres Comedy, Action
  • Tagline Every wannabe has his day

Three buddies with big dreams go from underachieving slackers to badass warriors when their posh hotel is taken over by terrorists.

Live blog

Time Comment
0:28 Mr C is criticising the graphics on the idents now. “Pencil didn’t bounce properly.”
7:42 “Takes pictures of the hot models and the guns and the hovercrafts, and the hot models shooting guns on the hovercrafts.”
14:38 Smoking, vaping, he’s right, it does look weird.
23:25 What the…
25:46 I do like the fact that their elevator lift shaft plan didn’t work. That never happens!
28:51 “Stop talking cool!” You just know that Adam Devine has wanted to be in a spy film his whole life.
32:56 Lot more of Bumper in this than I was expecting to see.
33:24 Ridiculous fight scene though.
36:11 Oh, how many people have wanted to do that! By Steve-O!
41:12 Home Alone 3 burn.
46:16 “Then I could soar off into the night hella majestically.”
47:20 “Fuck the po-lice, except for right now.”
53:16 Shaggy though!
1:04:45 “Babe, do something. Volunteer as tribute!”
1:06:05 Gaffa tape rage!
1:11:02 Oof, this film does not know what it wants to be.
1:30:11 “It’s kinda fun being badass.”

Thoughts

Oh, just terrible.

I was kinda expecting it to be pretty rubbish, and it really only popped up on our radar because of the Adam Devine/Netflix combination that worked so well with When We First Met. There were some moments that were good, and somehow it managed to be funnier than I thought, but also a lot worse than I thought as well.

Like I said in the notes above, the film doesn’t seem to quite know what it wants to be. It’s a comedy, sure, but then some of the violence is just too graphic to sit well in context. So maybe it wants to be a thriller but the story is nowhere near strong enough to cover it.

Really, very bad.

Rating: 1 / 5

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