Game Night Review: 7 Ups & 3 Downs

6. The Consistently Hilarious Script

It's rare that you can genuinely call a movie "laugh-a-minute", but Game Night actually gets pretty close to that, with Mark Perez's script cleverly mocking middle-class cheese-noshing comfort, while wrapping it around more conventional crime thriller tropes.

All of the six main characters get time to shine thanks to a script that's loaded with canny one-liners, and though a lot of the humour is reliant on pop-culture references, it actually fits the characters pretty well and never feels too forced. For instance, there aren't any random Game of Thrones jokes that feel desperately thrown in for the sake of it.

The script goes to totally unexpected places for some of its bigger gags - some of which thankfully weren't ruined by the trailers - and overall there's a shockingly limited number of jokes that don't land at all. Bravo.