Game Night (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, 2018)

A group of friends meet every week to play increasingly competitive games, and the stakes are upped when intruders burst into one of their sessions and seemingly kidnap one of them. The rest assume that this is just the host's attempt to outdo them and treat everything they find out as yet another clue left for them to follow, until things go south when, predictably, this turns out not to be the case.
It's strong on witty dialogue and character interplay among a likable cast (Jesse Plemons as the cop neighbour who's excluded from the games on the grounds of being too straight and stolid puts in the stand-out performance), but all the twists thrown in can't quite make up for a lack of originality, being essentially a daft version of David Fincher's The Game. It's diverting enough, but no more than an actual competitive game night would be.

5/10