Review : Game Over, Man!

Saurabha Dhongade
3 min readMar 26, 2018

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Game Over, Man! is newest addition in the everyone's favorite streaming platform Netflix . This new action comedy is rip-off of cult classic Die Hard. The story was long term project of the main crew of Comedy Central’s Workaholics and they play the role of 3 main protagonists in movie.

This is story of 3 childhood friends Alexxx (Adam Devine), Darren (Anders Holm) & Joel (Blake Anderson) whose dream is to be billionaire . They are working as housekeepers in an upscale downtown LA hotel but they hate their job more than anything else in the world. Alexxx thinks of various entrepreneurship ideas but none of them are practically guaranteed of success. They actually have one good video game suit idea called “Skintendo” but Darren & Joel are working on that secretly .

When the immature trio hear that Bey Awadi (Utkarsh Ambudkar), a billionaire social-media personal known as “The Bey,” is throwing a party at their hotel, Alexxx thinks of pitching the idea of “Skintendo” to him and get fund for the development . Bey is even more juvenile than they are, and he’s quickly hooked into their idea for the “Skintendo ” . Bey asks his financial adviser to write them cheque immediately.

However , Hotel manager overhears them and fires them on the spot and returns the cheque to Bey’s financial adviser. As the boys are leaving the hotel some goons who want ransom from The Bey invade. The group of hitmen lock down the hotel and take everyone present at party as hostage. What happens next is really funny . The 3 boys do various things to get back the cheque and in the comic chain of events how they fight the kidnappers to save the day.

This film contains many NSFW moments and adult content so it is rated as ’16 years and above’ by Netflix. Comedy sometimes gets dull and and usage of drugs is shown unnecessarily. But at the end of the day you can watch this mad action comedy for one time. This movie is treat for Workaholics fans as their favorite lead characters get freedom of language compared to TV . Also there are lots of cameos by famous comedians ,TV personalities and musicians like Shaggy , Steve-O , Donald Faison, Action Bronson ,King Bach, and Mark Cuban.

The critics rating of the film is negative but I will suggest audience should give this a watch and decide for their own.

P.S. : There is one funny mid credit scene suggesting a sequel , don’t miss that one !!

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