passion and rage, but it's a move away from genre, more a chamber drama than action movie in which violence is more psychic than physical." He called Keitel "the ideal Ferrara star, his control, volcanic emotions and endless capacity for expressiveness and revelation matching up with those very qualities in Ferrara himself." Madonna, he said, "reveals the vulnerability as well as the strength of both the actress and the character she is playing." In a mixed review, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called Keitel "superb" and the film "a mesmerizing jigsaw", but found that "Madonna's take on an emotional crackup comes up snake eyes ... and Ferrara's Dangerous Game stops being worth the playing." However, Owen Gleiberman, giving it a C− grade in Entertainment Weekly, called it "an ego-driven botch, one of those dawdlingly self-important, semi-improvised affairs about a director making a movie that turns out to be just like the one you're watching (or is it the other way around?)", but allowed that, "Madonna isn't embarrassing; she plays down the wax-goddess exhibitionism." Both Siskel & Ebert disliked the film and it later earned a place on their Worst of 1993 show. Siskel described the film in his initial review as "overwrought baloney" which Ebert concurred with and later denounced it as a "violent egotrip by its director Abel Ferrara." Year-end lists Dishonorable mention – Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News References External links 1993 films 1993 drama films 1993 independent films 1990s American films 1990s English-language films 1990s Italian films American drama films American independent films English-language Italian films Italian drama films Italian independent films Films about actors Films about adultery in the United States Films about film directors and producers Films about filmmaking Films directed by Abel Ferrara Films scored by Joe Delia Films set in Los Angeles Films shot in Los Angeles Films shot in New York City Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Obscenity controversies in film