Gamer
Product Description
Frenzied and relentlessly aggressive, Gamer seeks to translate the sensory barrage of violent video games into movie form--and does a pretty successful job. In a dystopic future, prisoners on death row are given a slim chance of survival as flesh-and-blood avatars for shoot-'em-up game players who control their very brains. The mastermind behind this game (played by Michael C. Hall, Dexter) has secret ambitions worthy of a James Bond villain, but his schemes are threatened by John Tillman (Gerard Butler, 300), the only living avatar who's survived more than a few games--so Tillman's already dangerous life turns even more deadly. Gamer revels in overkill: visual tricks abound as the action speeds up or slows down, skittering to and fro with jump cuts and flashes of light. The dialogue is a catalog of macho posturing or melodramatic exposition. The performances--from a surprising cast that includes Alison Lohman (Drag Me to Hell), Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), Chris "Ludacris" Bridges (Crash), and supermodel Amber Valletta--play cartoonish characters with exuberant gusto and commitment. By conventional standards, Gamer is a terrible movie… but the movie's creators don't care, because they aspire to step beyond conventional standards. As with their previous adrenaline-driven flick Crank, the writer-director team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor want viewers to plug in, turn off their rational minds, and immerse themselves in sheer sensation. --Bret Fetzer
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★★★★★ Gamer the movie
This movie is a great movie espesially for those who like video games, it relates very well to them.It is non-stop action from beginning to end.A very well made movie.
★☆☆☆☆ Gamer
Dont wast your money. I thought this would be a very good movie,it sucked bad.
★☆☆☆☆ Can't get any lamer than Gamer
What in the world is this?!?! What the hell were they thinking???? It has been a very very long time since I felt I was being tortured in a movie theater due to I had to sit through a whole excuse of a movie (thanks to my companion) and bear such pain. I was literally screaming inside my head wanting to get out, but oh no, it was useless. Instead I had put up with one of the worse movies I have seen recently in the cinema.
The movie is set in the future and how video games will be developed. That is not a bad idea considering that video games are ruling the world for some quite time now, but how the director developed the movie was simply ridiculous. Real life inmates are the characters you are playing and it is up to you for that convicted criminal to get out of each battle scenario alive. Yes, this film does contain action sequences but nothing that you haven't seen before. Gerald Butler is not a bad actor, but this could have easily killed his Hollywood career. Michael C. Hall gave in my opinion one of the shoddiest performances in 2009. At one point during the film you will not believe your eyes when you see convicts (Yes, that's right... convicts!) dancing to a Frank Sinatra tune. At that state I didn't know the perspective of the director and his intentions if it were to make us laugh or try to be psychedelic one way or the other. To me, it was just another reason to affirm how bad this movie is.
Reading the few 5 star reviews of this film makes me wonder if we saw the same movie, but in the end for some reason they are the minorities (No offense). Once I left the theater I ran to the nearest pub and drowned myself in liquor thinking how I was never going to get those 2 hours of my life back. The thought still haunts me `til this day.
The movie is set in the future and how video games will be developed. That is not a bad idea considering that video games are ruling the world for some quite time now, but how the director developed the movie was simply ridiculous. Real life inmates are the characters you are playing and it is up to you for that convicted criminal to get out of each battle scenario alive. Yes, this film does contain action sequences but nothing that you haven't seen before. Gerald Butler is not a bad actor, but this could have easily killed his Hollywood career. Michael C. Hall gave in my opinion one of the shoddiest performances in 2009. At one point during the film you will not believe your eyes when you see convicts (Yes, that's right... convicts!) dancing to a Frank Sinatra tune. At that state I didn't know the perspective of the director and his intentions if it were to make us laugh or try to be psychedelic one way or the other. To me, it was just another reason to affirm how bad this movie is.
Reading the few 5 star reviews of this film makes me wonder if we saw the same movie, but in the end for some reason they are the minorities (No offense). Once I left the theater I ran to the nearest pub and drowned myself in liquor thinking how I was never going to get those 2 hours of my life back. The thought still haunts me `til this day.
★★★☆☆ Kyra Sedgwick is in this??
Gamer is trying to make a statement, in the middle of all the explosions: "FIGHT THE POWER!!"
The Power? Its a Bill Gates - like character who seeks to control all mankind through special brain implants, that turn people into human puppets *GASP*!
In this futuristic society, people get paid to be on-line surrogates, while prisoners are forced to be human avatars in a real-life violent on-line video game. Gerard Butler plays one of the prisoners who fights to free himself from the game so he can rescue his family from digital slavery. Kyra Sedgwick plays a fluff reporter who gets involved in this conspiracy.
Gamer starts off OK, with lots of action and an interesting premise. But the ending really falls flat; its ridiculous. The acting was OK, except for some rapper they stuck into this film for some reason. The special effects were fairly good, I would give the film 4 stars if it had a better ending.
The Power? Its a Bill Gates - like character who seeks to control all mankind through special brain implants, that turn people into human puppets *GASP*!
In this futuristic society, people get paid to be on-line surrogates, while prisoners are forced to be human avatars in a real-life violent on-line video game. Gerard Butler plays one of the prisoners who fights to free himself from the game so he can rescue his family from digital slavery. Kyra Sedgwick plays a fluff reporter who gets involved in this conspiracy.
Gamer starts off OK, with lots of action and an interesting premise. But the ending really falls flat; its ridiculous. The acting was OK, except for some rapper they stuck into this film for some reason. The special effects were fairly good, I would give the film 4 stars if it had a better ending.
★★★☆☆ Not a lot of fighting action
Yeah this movie looked like it was a great interactive action movie but I was let down. only about 24 (if that) of the movie were actually cool and in the war field the rest was "action" all right but not the kind I was looking for and even that wasn't great. Couldn't enjoy because you knew what was going on was not truly consenting.
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