Funny Games

Two young preppies terrorize a young family (Naomi Watts, Tim Roth). Excruciating. I don’t mean excruciating suspense. I mean it is excruciating that you have to sit there and listen to the young preppies dumb jokes and banter. At one point one of the preppies actually talks to the camera and asks us, the viewers, if we want them to continue on because it would be no fun without a plot. What plot? We learn nothing about the preppies backgrounds or their motives. Apparently they were just bored and decided to go on a killing spree. All of the scuffles that end in gruesome violence are all done off screen. I do enjoy cat and mouse suspense films, but this isn’t one of them. Maybe if you have the patience to listen their dumb “polite” banter you might enjoy it. I didn’t.