The Game - 1997 - 5/10

Younger, less successful brother (Sean Penn) decides to give alpha-bro (Michael Douglas) a birthday to remember.
A dizzying labyrinth of murder, conspiracy, pursuit, treachery.
Was unimpressed by this when it originally screened.
Rewatched this critical darling and I still don’t buy the premise, no matter how polished looking, how breathless the pace.
Douglas’ character, as shown early on, would never have gotten into the situation in the first place.
One example: Would he have spent several hours in the application process? No way in hell.
The running without analyzing?
And “the game” itself?
The sheer organized structure of it defies logic. Preposterous.
Though had Douglas’ character been different, less pinpoint organized, the premise might have seemed more plausible.