Mafia: The Game of Survival (Russian: Мафия: Игра на выживание, romanized: Mafiya: Igra na vyzhivanie) is a 2016 Russian science fiction action film directed by Sarik Andreasyan and written by Andrei Gavrilov. It was inspired by a popular party game, Mafia. The movie was released in Russia on January 1, 2016.
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Plot
In 2072, the game-show Mafia becomes the most popular television show in the world. Eleven people gather at the table to find out — who are innocent civilians and who is ruthless Mafia. The world is going to see a cocktail of emotions and feelings: fear, lie, pain, pride, passion, love and death. The winner will receive a huge cash prize, and the loser will die.
Release
The film was released in Russia on January 1, 2016. It was released in China on October 14, 2016.
Reception
Box office
The film grossed US$4.2 million in Russia and the CIS and US$3.1 million in China, to worldwide total of 7,4 million, against an approximately $12 to $15 million budget. It is considered a box office bomb.
Critical reception
Reception of Mafia: The Game of Survival in Russian media was negative. It was largely ignored by mainstream critics, because Enjoy Movies did not screen the movie for press. According to the Russian review aggregator Kritikanstvo, only 8 reviews were published, and most of them were strongly negative, including reviews from KG-Portal, 25 Kadr and Kinokadr.