The Second Game (2014) User Reviews

For what reason?

[unpopicakbill · 1/10 · 16 January 2024]

I'm sure there is a reason for this to exist, I just didn't find it myself, as someone coming from the wider public, and having an aim that I will have some crop at the end of investing 100 minutes of my time.

As I stand now, there is no crop, there is no outcome. There is only two guys, both with invested interests, watching a football match, poorly filmed, nothing notable even on the football lovers.

This tells the viewer nothing, it's just a personal discussion between the director, of Romanian fame, and his father, a referee, acting in the actual match. There is no dialogue depth, no revealing facts, no football energy, no need for this to exist.

Use this to save 100 minutes of your life.

interesting but not dense enough

[tsimshotsui · 15 April 2017]

I was definitely game for the movie's set-up - which is basically just a whole football match which the director's dad refereed playing on as they both comment on what's happening. There were a handful of good moments, such as how certain moments in games were filmed at the time when the country was Communist. The film loses steam around the hour mark for me because comments became sparse, and the last good number of minutes' commentary got watered down to just the game itself, nothing more.