By Natalie Forster, Features Assignment Editor
The Netflix-original movie, “Game Over, Man!” directed by Kyle Newacheck, follows three nobodies as they go from their routine, lackadaisical lives into being a focal point for United States safety. Starring Adam DeVine, Blake Anderson and Anders Holm, this film premiered on March 23 and raunchily showcases the destruction of trying to take down terrorists holding hostages at a star-studded Los Angeles hotel party.
With a nine-percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, viewers and critics agree that this film’s dreadful comedy has far too little working punchlines and offers little substance to viewers.
Similar to the controversial movie “The Interview,” the actors make light of dangerous and current threats to United States safety by outside forces. Whereas “The Interview” centered on the killing of a foreign enemy in North Korea, “Game Over, Man!” involves killers on U.S. soil, holding people hostage in search of a payout.
Alexxx, Darren and Joel are three housekeepers at a very popular hotel, spending their days cleaning up after guests who live the lives they wish they could, with drugs, money and sex as their top priorities.
Reporting to an idiotic and rude boss, the boys try to sell their best idea, a video game console, to The Bey, a Shark-Tank-like investor who parties too much. Right when he offers them $200,000, their boss makes them leave the offer behind and work instead. The boss is almost killed by the bad guys shortly after, causing the hotel to rush into chaos.
Shooting and stabbing everyone that gets in their way, the bad guys attempt to take The Bey hostage, pressing him to surrender all his money. The unlikely heroes try hiding, while all the attendants, workers and guests are taken hostage, as well.
Following the normal, lame action movie format, the sidekick to The Bey ended up being the bad guy, trying to con his way into the fortune. Only this time, he shot all the other sidekicks, and, in true modern-day fashion, he video-chatted the local news services during some killings.
Quite possibly the best part of the film was when Shaggy came in to sing his 2000s hit “It Wasn’t Me.” With a gun to his head, he sang the words, making the terrorist so happy that he even thanked him afterwards. Right before the performance, the bad guy video-chatted a news station, and while they cut most of the song in the newscast, they claimed that Shaggy was most likely unharmed. Knowing Shaggy was okay gave the heroes hope that they can save the day.
Sadly, the most memorable part is the explosion of The Bey’s puppy. Being the turning point in the movie, where things really get out of hand, the characters react just as sadly and outrageously to the news as moviegoers.
Filled with crude jokes, nudity and abnormal deaths, the movie rivals that of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and “Paul Blart: Mall Cop.”
The name recognition is what makes this movie worth watching; nowhere else can you find nudity from not only Jon Gabrus, a famous comedian known for his MTV appearances, but also Adam DeVine, known for playing Bumper in “Pitch Perfect.” Sadly, in light of these big names, the movie falls very much short of hopes and expectations.
Very underachieving and unoriginal, “Game Over, Man!” combines everything mindless action movies can offer all into one.
