Game Over, Man!

This article is about the film. For the quote, see Hudson (Aliens).

Game Over, Man! is a 2018 American action comedy film directed by Kyle Newacheck, written by Anders Holm, and starring Holm, Adam DeVine, and Blake Anderson, all of whom previously collaborated on the sitcom Workaholics. It follows three down-on-their-luck housekeepers who must save the day when the Los Angeles hotel where they work is taken hostage. The film was released on March 23, 2018, on Netflix to generally negative reception from critics.

Game Over, Man!
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Directed by	Kyle Newacheck
Screenplay by	Anders Holm
Story by	Anders Holm Kyle Newacheck Adam DeVine Blake Anderson
Produced by	Adam DeVine Anders Holm Blake Anderson Kyle Newacheck Seth Rogen Evan Goldberg James Weaver Scott Rudin Eli Bush Isaac Horne
Starring	Adam DeVine Anders Holm Blake Anderson
Cinematography	Grant Smith
Edited by	Evan Henke
Music by	Steve Jablonsky
Production companies	Mail Order Company Point Grey Pictures Scott Rudin Productions
Distributed by	Netflix
Release date	March 23, 2018 (2018-03-23)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$27.1 million[1]

Plot

Alexxx (Adam DeVine), Darren (Anders Holm) and Joel (Blake Anderson)) work as housekeepers at a luxury hotel in Los Angeles. Cassie (Aya Cash) is their supervisor while Mitch (Daniel Stern) is the hotel manager. Cassie reports the trio's inappropriate behaviour to Mitch, but he dismisses her complaints.

Mitch informs them that a party is headed to their hotel, and Mr. Ahmad (Jamie Demetriou) is the personal attaché of the Bey of Tunisia Bae Awadi (Utkarsh Ambudkar). Alexxx sees this as a huge opportunity to pitch their business idea to the Bey and get funding. The trio will attempt to pitch 'Skintendo', a video game that they have been developing. When Alexxx get supplies, Darren and Joel discuss how they have been working on Skintendo without their friend.

Unknown to everybody, terrorists enter the building via the basement, impersonating the Bey's security team. They are led by Conrad (Neal McDonough), Erma (Rhona Mitra), hacker Donald (Sam Richardson). Conrad is in cahoots with Ahmad. The three friends use the party in the evening to get close to Bae and pitch him the idea of Skintendo. Bey proposes that he invest $200,000 which over-rules Ahmad's protests against the investment. As the boys leave with the check, Mitch takes the cheque from them and returns it to Ahmad.

Conrad enters with Erma and takes control of the party. Mitch fires the trio and as they leave, Erma enters. Furious that Mitch was hitting on her all evening, she mutilates his penis. Alexxx comes back to confront Ahmad and Mitch whereupon he finds Erma standing over Mitch's dead body. He flees before the terrorists can catch him. Donald enters the security room and seizes control of the building. All hotel staff are taken to the roof which is rigged with explosives. The trio find all exits guarded, and their phones were confiscated by Mitch earlier in the day. They hide inside a room. A pair of terrorists conduct a room-to-room search and the trio hide, waiting for the right moment to attack. Rich (Steve Howey) and Jared (Mac Brandt), the terrorists, engage in gay sex in the room; the three friends attack them. Rich is killed by Joel and an enraged Jared slips and splits his head open on the side table.

Conrad orders Bae to transfer $500MM into an offshore account and presses him for the access codes, otherwise he will kill his friends in the party one by one. Meanwhile, the trio come up with a method to make a zip line across to a window cleaning bench at the next building. They rig an ironing board to carry them over, but Rich (who was only injured), awakens, and attacks them forcing all 3 onto the ironing board at the same time. Rich hangs off the window, while the board gets stuck halfway between the 2 buildings. The police arrive. As they try to enter from the front entrance, they are attacked and call for back up.

In the heat of the moment Joel and Darren reveal that they have been working on Skintendo without Alexxx. The trio get into a fight, the zip line breaks, and they crash into the security room, just as Donald was entering the access codes into the computer to finish the transfer. The computer is smashed and in the process another terrorist is killed. Donald gets tied up in the zip line. He threatens to shoot the three but when an oblivious Rich climbs back up, the bed (to which the zip line was tied to) falls and takes Donald down with it, killing him in a fatal fall. Joel sees that Donald's phone had Ahmad's number as the last dialled. Joel calls Ahmad and Bae sees that Conrad ignores that Ahmad has a phone (while all others were confiscated). This reveals to Bae that Ahmad was working with Conrad all along. Ahmad shoots Conrad killing him.

Alexxx speaks to Ahmad and the trio also confirm that Ahmad is the ringmaster of the hostage situation. Ahmad releases a video to the US authorities demanding $500 MM ransom for 106 hostage and a helicopter to escape from the US. Any attempt to attack the building will trigger an collar explosive which is around each hostage's neck. He further threatens to shoot 1 hostage every 15 minutes. The trio plan to use all the Salvia drugs in Alexxx's room to stone the hostages and their gunners in the conference room.

They head to the AC ducts to plug their device in, but Erma tracks them down. She shoots the device, but the trio escape and Erma inhales a huge amount of Salvia. They team up to fight off one of her men and kill him in the hotel kitchen. Ahmad meanwhile kills Bey's dog and makes hostages fight each other to the death every 15 minutes. The trio are tracked down by Rich, who holds them at gunpoint. Rich ties the trio down in the spa room and starts torturing them, but they slip out from their restrains, gang up on him and finally kill him.

Darren and Joel team up to make a Skintendo out of Rich's corpse. To do this, they rig the outside of his body with electronic controllers, which can be manipulated to mimic orders given on an iPad. They get Rich to enter the conference room and take out a few bad guys, but the batteries overheat and Rich's body explodes. The trio follow Rich and corner Ahmad at gunpoint. Suddenly, Erma recovers and enters the conference room. Ahmad escapes with the money, but Joel reveals he is gay and proceeds to bitch slap Erma. Erma has the upper hand the entire fight, but then Mitch, who survived after all, enters and throws his organ at Erma, distracting her; this allows Joel to impale her on a piece of sharp wood.

The guys head to the roof and convince Ahmad to exchange Bey for the bags of money he left behind. Ahmad agrees and takes off with the money. But the guys had put all the collar explosives in the money bags and when the hostages leave the hotel, the bombs blow up the helicopter, killing Ahmad. Bey refuses to write the guys another cheque for Skintendo and he admits that he only wrote the first cheque to anger Ahmad. Suddenly, Mark Cuban steps up. He is not interested in the Skintendo but offers to buy the trio's story and turn it into a video game. The video game is "Game Over, Man".

2 years later, the trio are rich and having a party on a yacht. But unknown to them, they are being pursued by Somali pirates, hinting at the possibility of a sequel.

Cast

• Adam DeVine as Alexxx
• Anders Holm as Darren
• Blake Anderson as Joel aka "Baby Dunk"
• Utkarsh Ambudkar as Bae Awadi
• Aya Cash as Cassie
• Neal McDonough as Conrad
• Daniel Stern as Mitch
• Jamie Demetriou as Mr. Ahmad
• Rhona Mitra as Erma
• Sam Richardson as Donald
• Steve Howey as Rich
• Mac Brandt as Jared
• Geno Segers as Sal

Several celebrities also have cameo appearances as themselves, including Shaggy, Sugar Lyn Beard, Fred Armisen, Joel McHale, Flying Lotus, Steve-O, Donald Faison, Action Bronson, Chris Pontius, and Mark Cuban.

Production

On June 9, 2016, Netflix announced that it was producing Game Over, Man! with producers including Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and James Weaver via their Point Grey banner; and Scott Rudin and Eli Bush via Scott Rudin Productions. The list of producers also includes Adam DeVine, Anders Holm, Blake Anderson, and Kyle Newacheck, who collectively form the comedy group Mail Order Comedy, as well as Isaac Horne of Avalon Management.^[2][3]

Release

The film held its official premiere on March 21, 2018, at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles, California.^[4][5]

Reception

Critical reception

On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an 18% approval rating based on 17 reviews, with an average rating of 3.6/10.^[6] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 32 out of 100 based on 8 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.^[7]

In a negative review, Glenn Kenny of The New York Times wrote: "This almost laugh-free comedy...is distinguished by a relentless level of outrageous yet strangely listless vulgarity."^[8] In a similarly negative review, Monica Castillo of Variety wrote: "Game Over, Man! is a movie with few original ideas, plenty of tropes, and not enough love for the Bill Paxton Aliens character who made its eponymous catchphrase popular."^[9] David Ehrlich of Indiewire was more mixed, saying: "Game Over, Man! becomes to Workaholics what Keanu was to Key & Peele — a sporadically funny riff on a formula that worked much better in small doses. You know it’s a Netflix joint, because it almost feels designed to be half-watched in the background; an overly loud piece of muzak."^[10] In a somewhat positive review, Michael Rechtshaffen of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "The guys occasionally over-reach for irreverence, director and fellow Workaholics veteran Kyle Newacheck mainly succeeds in delivering the most defiantly outrageous farce since Borat."^[11]