Actors: Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams,
Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons,
Michael C. Hall, Kyle Chandler.
Rating: 9 out of 10, This was really
funny and not in the usual raunchy, adult manner of so many of today’s R-rated
comedies (not that raunchy is a bad thing). Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams
play a hyper-competitive married couple who host a weekly game night with
equally competitive friends. A supposedly staged kidnapping turns out to be the
real thing with the game players only gradually coming to realize it. Each of
the ensemble cast has their moments to contribute and the snarky one liners are
almost non-stop. I was afraid this was one of those movies where all the
funniest lines were spent in the trailers but that was not the case. Jesse
Plemons as the creepy cop neighbor steals virtually every scene he’s in but
this movie belongs firmly to Bateman and McAdams. This type of quick witted
comedy is right in Bateman’s wheel house but McAdams is more than up to the
challenge of keeping up with him. It’s a smart, adult movie that never takes
itself too seriously.
MVP: McAdams as the wifely side of the
competition
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