Game Over, Man! (2018)
★★ — Game Over, Man! (2018)
There's a version of this film that works. Three lads from a beloved comedy series, transplanted into a Die Hard setup, leaning into crude humour and chaotic energy. On paper, that's a decent Friday night. In practice, Game Over, Man! is a stretched sketch that runs out of ideas somewhere around the half-hour mark and keeps going anyway for another seventy-odd minutes.
Adam Devine, Anders Holm, and Blake Anderson are back together, this time playing a trio of hotel workers whose workplace gets seized by terrorists. The Workaholics DNA is all over it, for better and worse. The banter feels lived-in, the chemistry between the three of them is genuine, and there are a handful of moments where the absurdist escalation lands just right. But those moments are scattered across a whole lot of nothing, and the film never quite earns its feature-length runtime.
The central problem is pacing. On their TV show, the lads could build a daft premise, push it somewhere ridiculous, and wrap it up before it outstayed its welcome. A feature film doesn't give you that luxury. You need plot, you need stakes, you need the jokes to work in a different rhythm. Game Over, Man! doesn't seem particularly interested in any of that. The plot is genuinely paper-thin, the threat from the terrorists never registers as dangerous, and the action sequences look cheap in a way that even a Netflix budget probably shouldn't allow.
The humour is the same toolkit they've been working with for years. Crude gags, self-deprecating moments, jokes built on escalating absurdity. I don't have a problem with any of that in principle, but without the tight structure of a twenty-minute episode holding everything together, the jokes fizzle. You wait for the punchline, it arrives, it gets maybe a smirk, and then the film lumbers on to the next bit. It's like watching someone do a bit for too long at a party. Funny enough at first, awkward by the end.
The one-liners veer into proper corny territory, and the slapstick survival stuff rarely rises above what you'd expect. I kept thinking about how a film like Hardcore Henry at least committed completely to its daft action premise, going so hard at its concept that the energy carried you through. Game Over, Man! doesn't commit like that. It hedges, coasts on its cast's familiarity, and mistakes chemistry for content.
It's not offensively bad. I want to be clear about that. There are genuine laughs in here, and the three of them still have the kind of easy rapport you can't manufacture. If you stuck this on in the background of a house party, it'd probably get a few good reactions. But as a film, as something that's supposed to hold your attention for an hour and a half, it doesn't do the work.
What stings a little is that this had potential. The Workaholics humour colliding with action movie conventions is a legitimately funny idea. But translating that idea into something that actually functions as a film requires more than just reuniting the cast and pointing a camera at them. It needed a tighter script, a villain with some presence, and the discipline to cut the bits that weren't working. None of those things happened.
Two stars. If you loved Workaholics, this isn't the victory lap you were hoping for. It's more like finding a rerun on a slow Sunday, something familiar and comfortable but not something you'd go out of your way to watch. Game over, indeed.
Rating: ★★ | Year: 2018 | Watched: 2025-12-01
Where to watch
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Stream: Netflix · Netflix Standard with Ads
Physical: Amazon UK · Zavvi
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Physical: Amazon US
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