House of Games

Probably a fun movie back in the 80s, but doesn't really hold up that well today. I did expect a different ending though, so that was a nice surprise if nothing else. [spoiler]Unfortunately watching this with today's expectation of twists in every movie I of course realized it was a "scam the housewife" thing the second the "cop" in the hotel "accidentally" talked on the walkie-talkie _while the door was still open_ 😒and from there you realize it was a setup from the start all the way back to her patient and you kind of just have to wait for the rest of the 40 minutes to play itself out. For a few minutes I expected the ending to be a double-scam because it seemed a bit weird to send her patient back so I kind of thought they were either scamming more money from her or it was going to be some kind of a twisted happy ending.[/spoiler]

Solid psycological crime movie. Alsmost everything you'd want from a movie. Some negativity I've read and my response... Lindsay isn't a good actress. I'd agree but she didn't spoil the movie for me. I got used to her. Lindsay's character Margaret is smart but does stupid things. Is she? That's why I like it. She's the acedemic. She's memorised and learned from books and is qualified and smart but it still isn't as effective as Mike and his street level psycology. That's why she's fascinated with him. It was predictable. A little. But it's the type of movie that makes you think of outcomes so yeah you'd arrive to it. Doesnt make it a bad movie. Plenty of other stuff going on and not as predictable as most movies that you don't even have to think about.