Silly little action thriller designed as a vehicle for its sexy boytoy star Ben Affleck. He plays a young man in prison whose lovelorn cellmate James Frain exchanges letters with an equally infatuated young lady (Charlize Theron). When Frain dies in a prison riot, Affleck meets Theron in his cellmate's place and finds himself strongly attracted to her. However, her gangster brother (Gary Sinise) and his cohorts catch up with the two lovebirds and force them to help in ripping off a local casino. Is this the whole story? With conspiracy-theorist John Frankenheimer at the helm, I would think not! Not nearly as good as Frankenheimer's masterpiece The Manchurian Candidate, but not nearly as bad as his rancid The Island of Dr. Moreau.
Review of Reindeer Games
