Unfortunately, the script falters — telling a boring story about their battle against the evil Muriel (Famke Janssen)-- and
the nauseating graphic violence becomes tired quickly, leading to more disgusting images than are necessary in what should have been an entertaining motion picture.
By way of its coolly detached and minimalist style, Funny Games was deliberately made as a
nauseating antidote to films like Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994) and Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994), which (too) eagerly depict
graphic violence for the viewer's entertainment (13).