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I have seen many bad movies in my time, this one has to be at the very bottom of the list.In every aspect it hits the GONG. It was originally a German film in 1997, same writer & director..He redid his original, which was no where as bad.In the celluloid piece of garbage nothing works & here he has two actors who have proved there worth. Tim Roth & Naomi Watts are just awful.The 2 nasties are revoltingly bad & one of them has done much better work..I do not normally mind sleaze but here it is beyond the pale.Ratings * (out of 10) 14 points (out of 100) IMDb 1 (out of 10)

I feel very similar about Funny Games than what I felt after watching The Strangers. Appalled and disturbed. However, Funny Games (as said by the director) seems to be a commentary on violence in media/movies, and not just violence in movies to have violence. Either way, it's certainly difficult to not feel sick to your stomach after witnessing the crimes against the family in Funny Games, but I do appreciate some of the obstacles Michael Haneke takes instead of going through with the many cliches that plague the modern day horror. But I guess we're all left asking the same question...what was the point?6.8/10

I saw this movie yesterday and on the whole really liked it. Whew ... I don't know when last I've been to a horror movie / psychodrama that was so relentlessly scary ... in a lean, bleak, psychologically devastating way.I thought the acting and scripting and directing and editing were all really excellent throughout. Everything but everything in this movie works together to draw you into an utterly horrifying experience.What really captivated me was this understated but relentless tension that just grips and chokes and overwhelms from beginning to end.This is the kind of movie that really, really makes you *feel* like you're there, going through what this unfortunate family went through.If you haven't seen it yet and like good, chilling, judiciously bloody psychodrama, hey, check this movie out ... it's really scary psychodrama at its very best.Charles Delacroix