Based on the third installment in Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley series, Ripley’s Game is set twenty years after The Talented Mr. Ripley and finds the title character with greater wealth and sophistication. Played with erudition and detached charisma by John Malkovich, Ripley is asked by an associate to relieve the pressure being exerted on him by competing mafia groups. Exhibiting his voracious appetite for devious games, Ripley cons a terminally ill man who insults him at a party to commit the requisite murder. The film hinges on the performance of Malkovich and takes joy in its flaunting of conventional morality.