GAMER
Times are tough, money is tight, and entertainment isn’t free. Oh wait yes it is! You know those guys walking around campus usually around the bookstore handing out free movie tickets? They are legit. Take the free movie tickets. They are for movie screeners and if you show up on time and cant get into the screener you almost always get a free ticket for you and a guest to any movie not premiering that weekend.
From the directors and producers of CRANK comes GAMER, a movie set in the not so distant future where controlling other people via a SIMS like reality known as SOCIETY is all the craze. People volunteer to be used for money and do basically anything they are controlled to do through some form of nano-technology that is put in their brain. On the battlefront you have what is known as a SLAYER. It is a spin off of Society where the Running Man meets Counter Strike and death row inmates are controlled by people in a real life death match. It’s simple; live and move onto the next round. If your inmate survives 30 rounds he is set free. The movie is really non stop action. I mean something is always going on here.
Kable, played by Gerard Butler, is a family man on death row whose wife (Amber Valletta) is a SOCIETY whore in a custody battle for her daughter. All the while Kable is stuck in prison being controlled by a 15 year old kid who’s his only hope of survival. This movie is action from start to finish offering loads of gunplay, hand-to-hand combat, comical tid bits and drunken tirades of disaster. The movie offers great visual effects and environments as you are taken through three different real life perspectives in this made up future.
The one thing that bothered me about this movie was the SOCIETY aspect of it when the filmmakers tried to put peoples fetishes on display, by having obese slobs control beautiful woman in order to live vicariously through them. Having a woman urinate into a pantry dish on a seventy-foot screen is not attractive in any way, shape, or form. Oh ya and Ludacris…..he’s not an actor and well ive seen him play tons of rolls and he isnt anyone of them. He’s an international hacker guy….really? Ugh…ya stick to your thug cameos of Law and Order….i just cant see him play something he isnt… not to say he is a thug but i believe that over a hacker or any other roll he’s given where is isnt a rapper.
GAMER is a sci-fi thriller with an extremely well known cast from Michael C. Hall to Ludacris and Kyra Sedgwick, Terry Crews, John Leguizamo and a cameo from Heroes’ Milo Ventimiglia. This movie won’t disappoint a video game player or someone just looking for a two hour action sequence.
so ya id say see this.
-reviewed by
Albert