Review – Reindeer Games

If poor Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer had known that this was what he was missing out on, he probably wouldn’t have felt too bad about not being permitted to play. Our wrong-man protagonist (Ben Afleck) is a con fresh out of maximum security lock-up who assumes the identity of his dead cell-mate so he can go home with the guy’s correspondence girlfriend (Charlize Theron). After a tawdry sex scene, he ends up roped into helping a gang of would-be robbers (led by Gary Sinese) hit a casino. As usual with movies like this, he makes a string of bad and/or weak decisions that keep the plot going a lot longer than it really needs to. And to top it all off, the film-makers try to compensate for the predictability of most of the movie by introducing a plot twist at the end that can only accurately be described as completely absurd. Overall the sex and violence just aren’t quite enough to make up for the abysmal script and lackluster acting. See if desperate