the story about a couple Max (Jason Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams) who both are competitive by nature regards to everything especially games of any sorts, it is especially how their relationship began, so they and there group of friends (Sharon Horgan,Billy Magnussen,Lamorne Morris,Kylie Bunbury) have game nights every once in a while and everything was good until Max’s brother Brooks (Kyle Chandler) comes to town, Max has always been afraid of his brother and wasn’t comfortable in his presence for he always wins whenever they competed in any games, having a complex because of his brothers insane skill in games.

thus one such game night Brooks asks Max and friends to indulge in a new game, one in which he is kidnapped and they need to solve the riddle to save him thus in-turn winning a prize. this is when a shocking turn of events happen instead of fake kidnappers as per the game real one show up as Brooks was involved in some shady stuff. thinking the game has started the gang splits up to win the prize slowly discovering they had gotten themselves in more trouble than they thought.

the movie does have some fun scenes but also a lot of not so much scenes, placing it on the list for the movie you watch when there isn’t much else to see. it is the comedy movie that a free Friday and tub of popcorn is perfect for.

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