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Gamer (2009)

September. 04,2009
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5.7
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Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game's mastermind.

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Vashirdfel
2009/09/04

Simply A Masterpiece

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Smartorhypo
2009/09/05

Highly Overrated But Still Good

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Intcatinfo
2009/09/06

A Masterpiece!

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InformationRap
2009/09/07

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Nicole Marie
2009/09/08

The world of gaming has been growing for years and years, and will continue to grow as long as new and exciting games are being produced. The film Gamer (2009) represents one possible outcome for the gaming community in the not-so-distant future using a beautiful combination of several unique characteristics: presentation being key. It is common knowledge that when the year 2000 came around, widespread panic ensued because it was thought technology would begin destroying the planet in some horrible fashion only SkyTech would be able to commence- a ridiculous notion to those alive today. Gamer not only elaborates on the fear of technology, it also presents several reasons for technology to be feared. The film is shot in a sporadic way, offering scenes of nothing but plot twists and action, which is very similar to how video games are presented. In a video game, the characters get right to the point of what they're saying, and the plot builds from hardly any background information at all, just like this film. The motion capture in a game is also very rough and meant to really place you at the scene, and the filmography also attempts at presenting this connection. The film Gamer wasn't an outstanding movie, but it was, however, a wonderful presentation of the gaming community and a great way to express what it is like to be a gamer to the non-gaming personnel.

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NateWatchesCoolMovies
2009/09/09

Neveldine/Taylor's Gamer is a grim, hedonistic blast of skullcrushing action and stinging social commentary that ruthlessly indicts the technological era with tongue in cheek precision. The duo are also responsible for the Crank films, which are similarly painted in broad strokes of brash, bratty attitude and kinetic, spare no limbs violence, but are pure fun. This one keeps that vibe, darkens it just a touch, and holds up a mirror that shows a sad but all too true vision of ourselves. What's scary is that it isn't even all that exaggerated. In the near future the prison systems have been privatized by corporations, including one led by the ambitious, evil Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall, even more unhinged than on Dexter). His program uses prisoners as virtual puppets, controlled by gamers out in the real world, and stages brutal all out warfare between them, observed, bet on and obsessed over the world over, like the NFL but with lethal firepower and exploding heads. The reigning champion, Kable (Gerard Butler proves again what a wicked action leading man he is), longs for freedom, and attempts to contact his controller, a stuck up rich brat (Logan Lerman is a little ball of sleaze), in order to plan his exodus from this most extreme of sports. On the outside, Kable's wife (Amber Valetta) and young daughter appeal for his release. She ends up getting entangled in a vile, R rated version of The Sims in a delightfully repulsive sequence. Kyra Sedgwick plays a morally bankrupt reporter, Ludicrous and Alison Lohman are freedom fighters raging against the powers that be, and Zoe Bell, Terry Crews, Milo Ventimiglia (playing, I kid you not, a spandex clad video game avatar named Rick Rape), Noel Gugliuemi and John Leguizamo all make memorable appearances as well. The movie, despite being ultra fast paced and often very funny, is not lighthearted fare. The action has a jarring, repellent quality that induces cringes, but is still a ton of fun to anyone who can stomach it. The irreverent tone helps as well, with rude, unmannered character interactions and smutty dialogue reflecting the filmmakers view on our spoilt, often sickening generation. Songs like Bloodhound Gang's Bad Touch and Marilyn Manson's Sweet Dreams inject additional, welcome atmosphere into the skeezy veins running through the film. Brutal. Kinetic. Sarcastic. A whole lot of fun. And you haven't lived until you've seen Butler slam a mickey of vodka and take a leak into a vehicle's gas tank, thus furthering his escape.

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Adam Peters
2009/09/10

(7%) A truly dire mess that feels like it was directed by Beavis and Butt-head after a heavy drug and alcohol binge as the camera movements and edits during any sort of action will ruin your sight and the wafer-thin plot makes little sense (or did I simply stop caring?). And lastly the stupid song and dance routine at the end is the dog muck flavoured icing on the cake. I'm all for some juvenile fun in my movies but the feeling I got watching this turkey is that the makers need to grow up and make a proper movie and stop wasting money (this crap lost about $9 million at the box office) and using up my time with this garbage.

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SnoopyStyle
2009/09/11

In the future, rich and powerful Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) creates a gaming environment where gamers can use real people as avatars. Eventually, he would use death row inmates in a fight to the death game called 'Slayer'. Kable (Gerard Butler) is one of those death row avatars who scrambles to gain his freedom.This is an aggressively ugly viewing experience. Everything is in-your-face. The computer interactions are in-your-face. The people are ugly in-your-face. The CGI and the flashing cuts are so distracting that the story is but a sideshow. While I want to see the premise play out, it is too tiring to maintain my interest. The idea of using real people as avatars is actually very fascinating. I just can't deal with all the bells and whistles.

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