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| FILM DETAILS | Certificate
18 | | Cast
Gerard Butler
Milo Ventimiglia
Alison Lohman
Terry Crews. | | Directors
Brian Taylor
Mark Neveldine. | | Screenwriters
Mark Neveldine
Brian Taylor. | | Running Time
95 minutes |
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Gamer (18) Plot
In the future, Kable (Gerard Butler), a convict, is mentally linked with a player who controls him in a violent, live-action computer game. He tries to escape from the program and hook up with the resistance to the schemes of megalomaniac games tycoon Castle (Michael C. Hall). Review
The Neveldine/Taylor team, of the Crank movies, deliver another sci-fi mash-up, scrambling elements from eXistenZ and The Running Man in a busy, exciting, slide down the cutting edge.
Given that Jason Statham has already played an unjustly-convicted death row gladiator out to beat the system in Death Race, N/T have to use the less instantly charismatic Gerard Butler as a blank icon hero, but Six Feet Under/Dexter star Michael C. Hall finally gets a worthy movie role as an eccentric puppet-master villain.
It’s not as immediately gripping as Crank and has one crucial lapse of imagination – the main game seems like a conventional first-person shooter – but has astonishing moments (Hall miming to Sammy Davis Jr as his choreographed kill-squad batter Butler) and concepts. Verdict
An injection of adrenaline straight to the eye – which isn’t entirely a bad thing.
Reviewer: Kim Newman
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| Good Fun | | | This film definitely has flaws. But as the same as the Crank films I just went with it and in doing so it becomes perfectly enjoyable. If your a big gamer then surely you could chuckle and appreciate little things within the film that reflects popular games to date. One good moment was one of the convicts tea bagging another dead one! Who hasn't done that while playing online? The unique style seperates the film from others of its kind and is definitely better than Surogates which came out at th... Read More
| | | Shaunyboy27 About me | | 14:32, 16 October 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | | | I didn't make it past the first fifteen minutes of this film, which relies on flashy editing aswell as unesseccary effects to try and convey mood and in the process completely neglects character development and plot. It's just plain odd and seems more like a protracted mtv music video then a film. Watch running man instead. ... Read More
| | | Smootle About me | | 20:05, 08 October 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Awful | | | Truely bad film. How this got 3 stars is beyond me. It felt like it was written and directed by a couple of fourteen year olds acting out their pubescent wank fantasies. Awful dialogue, completely bland cardboard cut-out clichéd characters and even the action scenes were unimaginative and dull. ... Read More
| | | HIM About me | | 07:48, 04 October 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Gamer | | | As a gamer I liked it, I knew what to expect to a certain degree i.e from the makers of Crank, just an enjoyable bit of ultra violent nonsense. I think it was certainly more effective movie than Surrogates, funny how they both used the fat man using a female avatar to pick up guys thing as well. ... Read More
| | | durelius About me | | 20:40, 02 October 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: An enjoyable action movie | | | This film deserves one star, because there was a hint of a very powerful and thought provoking movie on offer here but an absolute waste of potential (i.e. where society is actually going or is, receding compassion and instant gratification). The film is just terrible. ... Read More
| | | kjudge6 About me | | 07:27, 28 September 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | An enjoyable action movie | | | It's a cool film with some amazing action sequences such as the shoot-outs and Kable's fist fight wih Castle's henchmen. A bit more nudity then nessessary but thats what makes Gamer funny as well. An action movie the requires no thinking, just enjoyment. ... Read More
| | | Alien Hunter About me | | 12:58, 27 September 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | | | Thought this was crap, but enjoyable crap none the less. Being a girly, I did get a bit bored of ladies getting their dirty pillows out but I thought this was fun in a supremely crap kinda way. ... Read More
| | | Lazy wolf eyes About me | | 18:03, 25 September 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Gamer | | | total shite!!! ... Read More
| | | moviemaniac2 About me | | 21:05, 24 September 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Gamer | | | total shite!!! ... Read More
| | | moviemaniac2 About me | | 21:05, 24 September 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Game Over.......Thank God !!!!..... | | | Just came back from the Cinema today, after watching " Gamer "....and to be honest, I wish I hadn't bothered, its a bit of a mess all round, and downright stupid at times. There is a good storyline in there somewhere, its just VERY difficult to know whats going on at times. Couple of Boys in front of us thought it was the best " Gamiing " Film they had seen though, as we overheard them on the way out !!!!!!........ ... Read More
| | | n13roy About me | | 19:39, 23 September 2009 | Report This Post | |
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