Based on 127 votes and 25 reviews.
It was a horrible movie, it offended sensibility I have. The only reason I even watched the whole movie was that I thought that something must be redeemable about this movie. However, it just kept getting more and more offensive. The only thing I can say is that it shows how desensitisized our society has become to violence of every kind.
In all honesty I couldn't wait for this movie to hit theaters, more because I was curious how people would react to it. The original was a comment on the viewer and their blood lust, making the viewer feel "icky" for having watched it. This will go over many people's heads I'm sure and I'm also sure the comments left by people on this site will be quite funny.
Very original in it's approach, as this is one of the first artsy thriller movies I've ever seen. It is, however, a bit to weird for my taste. Also I felt that the slow-pace, fast-pace balance of the movie leaned heavily to the former making it seem incredibly looonnnggg.
Funny Games is one more film of the kind that contributes to the idolizing of violence within the film industry. The director and screen writer, Michael Haneke, seems to enjoy the degree of vulnerability and impotence with which he endows his characters Ann, George and their little son Georgie, at the same time that he makes the killer characters capable of the cruelest acts with total impunity. I believe that every person involved in the telling of a story has a responsibility with the effects and consequences that the story could have on those seeing and listening. Haneke kills a whole family and he does it through this movie that does nothing for the betterment of a society that seems
Very, Very Different, im really iffy on this one, the way it was approched is very original, but im not sure if the feeling that i had when i left thr theatre was a good one or a bad one. this is a love it or hate it movie, but its definitly different then anything else out right now. goes from fast to slow paced, to fast to slow paced, very trippy.