"The Girlfriend Game" is an American English-language live action short film from 2015 that runs for slightly under 15 minutes and is the most recent filmmaking effort by German-born director Armen Antranikian. The writer is Nick Antosca and he worked on quite a few television series, stuff that you may have come across already too. Same can be said about the cast. There are no huge stars in here obviously, but you will find one or the other actor who you may have seen on television if you watch it a lot. In my very case, this would be an actor from The Blacklist. So much for the basics. What is at least as important is the story and here we have a couple role-playing in public, in clubs for example, but this time things go a bit out of hand. If you want to know why, then you should check this one out. If not, then you won't be missing too much except the pretty attractive cast and I as a heterosexual male can only mention Sophie Kargman, the female lead. But sadly the film itself is never too edgy or thrilling (as the genre suggests) or interesting enough simply-said for it to really make a memorable impact. The entire thing is hiding a bit behind the atmospheric take here, but the story rarely lives up to it. So it's not a failure all in all, but as a whole I still have to give this one a thumbs-down. Not recommended.
Review of The Girlfriend Game
