Thursday 13 June 2013

Gamer (2009)

Directors: Mark Nevaldine, Brian Taylor
Starring: Gerard Butler, Amber Valletta, Michael C. Hall, Kyra Sedgwick, Logan Lerman, Terry Crews, Ludacris, John Leguizamo
Certificate: 18
Genre:  Action, Sci Fi
Awards: None

In the future, death row inmates have the choice to volunteer themselves to have a chip in their brain. They are then set into a team and have to kill the other while being controlled by players at home. If a Gamer wins 30 fights, he wins his freedom. However the people in charge don't want him to for some reason.

Gamer has got an idea with a lot of potential but it is just unwatchable. The quick and strange camera shots just give a feeling of sickness and confusion, and this goes on for the whole film. None of the characters are interesting enough to care about and the plot makes little sense if any.

The premise is still wonderful and would be brilliant for a Black Mirror episode. Unfortunately Gamer doesn't think, it just wants to show action and even failing at that.

- A complete waste of time

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