1. The
   Onion A.V. Club

   Reviewed
   by: Scott
   Tobias

   100

   A chilly and extraordinarily controlled treatise on film
   violence, Funny Games punishes the audience for its casual bloodlust by giving
   it all the sickening torture and mayhem it could possibly desire. Neat trick,
   that.

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2. Chicago
   Tribune

   Reviewed
   by: Michael
   Phillips

   50

   Funny Games is fundamentally a bourgeois exercise in
   authorial sadism. As the methodical games grind on, the suffocatingly beige and
   white surroundings start to look like a mausoleum.

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3. New
   York Daily News

   Reviewed
   by: Elizabeth
   Weitzman

   38

   A patronizing, self-satisfied piece of work, Funny Games
   is Michael Haneke’s way of chastising us for blindly following the traditional
   rules of entertainment.

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1. VictorM

   10

   Beautiful and brilliant. Cinema as an art, at its best.
   Not for the close-minded.

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2. luckaks

   5

   … its not enough to make a movie mix every kind
   of violence possible and find that – because violence tends to be shocking – the
   movie itself will have some impact …
   the plot of this film is an empty sequence. No point is made​​. Do not teach
   anything. Not even an intelligent approach of violence, because the character of
   the characters is not psychologically challenging. You know when you take a
   literary work of a beginner and do not avoid the artificiality of the
   characters? is the same in this film. This usually happens with beginners
   because, eager to have a very dramatic storyline, they designed fake spectacular
   characters to build it … the result is a failure: people soon realizes that
   they are inventions, like puppets … if this director and writer likes so much
   to treat this theme, they should study real criminals. If they want to address
   the sociological aspects of violence and crime, they should study and draw
   lessons from other teachers, as Dostoievsky … and if they wanted to entertain
   the audience should desist from trying to make it look very smart on topics that
   they do not know how to deal with a drop of profoundness …… Expand

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3. fredfl

   3

   This was actually a scifi film. “Grand Theft Auto
   2200″. That’s why the boys (players) didn’t care about the victims and why
   rewind worked. That’s the only sense I
   can make out of it. Otherwise, it was a waste of time.… Expand

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