gallum6 I'm about 80% sure this movie was written by a 17 year old. Gratuitous sex, violence, and language, very weak story, subpar action sequences. Butler has done far better.

NateWatchesCoolMovies 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.

Screen_Blitz Director Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor brought the thrills and impressive visuals in the film Crank (2006) and its sequels. Here in this sci-fi action thriller, not so much. Set in the near-future when humans are able to control others through mind control, Michael C. Hall (Dexter) plays Ken Castle, a technological genius who runs a live-action online third-person shooter game known as "Slayers", where prisoners are pulled out of death row and forced to battle in a gun-blazing fight to the death; on live television. The last man left alive at the end of the game wins his freedom. Gerard Butler plays Kable, a prisoner who must fight to the end and make it out alive to get back to his wife and daughter. Logan Lerman plays Simon, a cocky, but expert gamer who controls Kable in the game. While this film follows an undoubtedly interesting premise and boasts some great action sequences, it suffers from an extreme lack of substance and execution; here is why. The plot development is very clumsy and goes in many directions it doesn't need to go. As it follows Gerard Butler's character Kable trying to make to the last round of the game, he learn that Michael C. Hall's character (the bad guy) is plotting to kill him. We are never given the motive as to why he doing it or what he wants from Kable exactly. Towards the climax, the plot transcends into this ridiculous convoluted mess where nothing makes sense anymore. As a case in point, the characters feel one- dimensional and hard to care about. Secondly, throughout the film while we are being treated with these unflinching bloody and violent shootouts, there is an unnecessary amount of sexual intercourse and nudity. Basically whats goes on in these scenes, is men and women who are sort of like avatars in the game world, flashing their breasts, flashing their bottoms, or engaging in sexual activity and what not; and it is just so unnecessary. These scenes are very misogynistic (especially with Amber Valleta's character) and are designed to just make the audiences uncomfortable. Then there are these other scenes that are just straight up perverted. It makes the movie look more like a porno. And the worst part is, the players on the outside controlling them. This film seems to aim to be more exploitative than realistic. Don't get wrong, I am have seen movies like this, but this is one just makes it unpleasant. Overall, Gamer is a bit of a mess. This film not only runs on a horrifically bad script, but is very crude, loathsome, and tries it hardest to make viewers uncomfortable. Basically, if you have a problem with extreme violence, sex, and nudity; you are definitely gonna hate this movie. Even if you are a big video game addict, you still have very little chance of enjoying this.

SnoopyStyle 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.