Every year, audiences all over the world revisit the same films on an annual basis to help get the holiday spirit running through their veins, but we didn’t expect Reindeer Games to be one of the titles to suddenly emerge from the wilderness to be put under the microscope for reappraisal.
On a base level, absolutely nothing about the critical and commercial disaster makes a lick of sense. It’s called Reindeer Games, and Christmas is sort of a major plot point because Ben Affleck’s Rudy wants to be go home to be with his family after being released from prison, but when his cellmate is killed he assumes his identity to go and have sex with Charlize Theron in a cabin instead.