The Games Maker (2014) Movie Review

The Games Maker (2014) (IMDB)

The Games Maker movie poster

The Games Maker is about a boy, Ivan Drago, and his fascination with inventing games. Ivan invents games and enters them into a mail-in game invention contest, eventually winning the competition. This leads to a quest story that describing here would sound ridiculous, but involves his parents disappearing, a boarding school. It is very much a magical, adventure that deals with a city called Zyl, known as the “games capital” where Ivan’s estranged grandfather lives. We have a bad guy in the movie named Morodian who must be overcome. As someone who creates maze art and maze puzzles I relate to Ivan.

There is a labyrinth in the town (really a hedge maze), shown in a tv commercial of all things, and mentioned as being overgrown. We later find out that Morodian invented a game called The Labyrinth of Death, based off of an incident from his childhood. Ivan eventually enters the labyrinth (shown below) to try to find Morodian.

The Games Maker hedge maze screenshot

Overall the movie has the feel of a teen adventure book. Worth a watch if you like this type of movie, but there is a reason you have never heard of it.

I give it a 5.6/10