![]() ![]() ![]() Claus) no sooner finish making love to the accompaniment of Dean Martin’s “Let It Snow” in a motel room, when in bursts her psychotic truck-driver brother Gabriel (Gary Sinise). Rudy and Ashley (who demonstrate less sexual chemistry than Mr. Rudy impulsively decides to pass himself as his cellmate, Nick - a murderer who had been corresponding for months with a beautiful young stranger named Ashley (Charlize Theron) before his demise in a prison riot just before his impending release. More naughty than nice is the severe miscasting of the boyish, clean-cut Affleck as Rudy, a tough ex-con who’s released from Michigan prison after a stretch for auto theft. There’s nothing quite as dispiriting as listening to Ben Affleck’s a capella rendition of “The Little Drummer Boy” in late February - unless it’s a script that piles on ridiculous plot twists like so many discarded Christmas trees. ‘REINDEER Games” opens with an image of a dead Santa Claus lying on the hood of a car.How apt: This Christmas-themed thriller is brain dead on arrival, a full two months after the holiday. At 42nd Street E-Walk, Lincoln Square, Kips Bay, others. Ben Affleck is absurdly miscast as an ex-con who’s drawn into a casino heist plot by a mysterious woman (Charlize Theron) and her brother (Gary Sinise).Running time: 105 minutes. REINDEER GAMESThis brain-dead, Christmas-themed thriller piles on one unbelievable plot twist after another, and director John Frankenheimer can do little but keep things moving. ![]()
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