The following day at lunch with his dissolute and mildly estranged brother Conrad (Sean Penn) the younger man offers him a 'voucher' for an experience with Consumer Recreation Services that promises to "give him what he lacks".
Feeling unusually curious Nicky visits CRS and grudgingly takes the battery of psychological tests they use to tailor the experience.
No good will come of this.
CW: suicide
This early piece from David Fincher is interesting with Douglas thrown into a kind of ARG or LARP where he doesn't know where it begins or ends. It's not exactly a spoiler to say that what Nicky lacks is uncertainty, powerlessness and peril with CRS stepping in to provide plenty.
Being a movie, obviously this is ramped up to absurd levels with feats of action, misdirection and stage management that would be impossible to pull off even with the resources at hand to the billionaire customer tier. Somebody would mistime their entrance, have an accident or some bystander would cause it to go awry because real life isn't a movie set. Go with it though and it's a really fun ride.
The ending is kind of unsatisfying but it's probably the ending for its era, it is after all over 25 years old. A solid twisty watch 7/10.