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First Review: Gamer is one of those movies that you either love or hate. Online gaming takes on new meaning in a futuristic world. In that world, players at home can direct convicts to do their bidding in a wickedly violent, multiplayer competition, and death-row inmate Kable (Gerard Butler) has no choice but to play. As millions satisfy their sadistic fantasies via prisoner avatars, Kable must find a way to escape and expose the hidden agenda of the reclusive fat cat who dreamed up the game (Michael C. Hall).
Taking pieces from Running Man, Death Race, and even from their first two films in the Crank series, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor depict a grim look at society, and where we could be going from where we are today. In between all the lustful scenes and carnage, Neveldine and Taylor try to create a commentary on where our society is going. The rich and controlling puppet masters, to the puppets whose lives are completely in control by the puppet masters.
Gamer is a natural progression for the directors of the Crank films to create, and the movie is the perfect blend of cinema meets a video game, with all of the chaotic screen candy to boot. We are treated to three different realms: Society (where "gamers" control actors in an "anything goes world" - The Sims to the extreme level); Slayers (where convicts are controlled in the ultimate bloody battle grounds); and the real world (somewhere where mundane life just exists). Normally a film such as Gamer would feature "B" rated actors, however, it appears that Liongrate has gone all out with this film. Gerald Butler (300, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life) is at the top of his game, along with Amber Valletta (Transporter 2), and Alison Lohman (Drag Me to Hell). Also along for the ride, although a bit underused, were Zoe Bell (Grindhouse), Milo Ventimiglia (Hereos, Rocky Balboa), John Leguizamo (Spawn), and Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer). The only two performances that were lacking in the over-the-top performance by Michael C. Hall (Dexter) and the rapper turned actor Ludacris.
Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA
Runtime: 95 minutes
Rating: 6.1/10
Languages: English
Director:
Mark Neveldine
Brian Taylor
Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS
Writing by :
Produced by:
Gary Lucchesi
James McQuaide
Mark Neveldine
Michael Paseornek
Eric Reid
Tom Rosenberg
David Rubin
Brian Taylor
Skip Williamson
Richard S. Wright
Music By:
Cast:
Gerard Butler - Kable
Amber Valletta - Angie
Michael C. Hall - Ken Castle
Kyra Sedgwick - Gina Parker Smith
Logan Lerman - Simon
Alison Lohman - Trace
Terry Crews - Hackman
Ramsey Moore - Gorge
Ludacris - Humanz Brother
Aaron Yoo - Humanz Dude
Jonathan Chase - Geek Leader
Dan Callahan - Backup Geek
Brighid Fleming - Delia
Johnny Whitworth - Scotch
Keith Jardine - Mean Slayer
Michael Weston - Producer
Joseph D. Reitman - Board OP (as Joe Reitman)
John de Lancie - Chief of Staff
Milo Ventimiglia - Rick Rape
Zoe Bell - Sandra
John Leguizamo - Freek
Noel Gugliemi - Upgrade Guard
Jarvis W. George - Brown Soldier #1 (as Jarvis George)
Jai Stefan - Brown Soldier #2
Richard Machowicz - Blue Soldier #1
Ken Smith - Lifer
Henry Hayashi - Razorblade
Dylan Kenin - Train Guard
Keith David - Agent Keith
Maggie Lawson - Female News Host #1
James Roday - News Co-Host #1
Sam Witwer - Caseworker
Rebekah Tarin - Dale
Kate Mulligan - Sorority Chick
Med Abrous - Pig Nose
Ashley Rickards - 2Katchapredator
Nikita Ramsey - Kumdumpsta #1
Jade Ramsey - Kumdumpsta #2
Mimi Michaels - Stikkimuffin
Sadie Alexandru - Society Victim
Ariana Scott - Sissypuss Shelley
Cynthia Robertson - Porn Girl
Antoinette Antonio - Female News Host #2
Don Smith - News Co-Host #2 (as Donnie Smith)
Lloyd Kaufman - Genericon
Stephanie Mace - Geek Girl
Adam Loeb - Ben Richard
Efren Ramirez - DJ
David Rubin - Lab Tech (as David Scott Rubin)
Fred Loeb - Society Concierge
Jera Askey - Raver
Jack Brunacini Jr. - Slayer
Hayley Derryberry - Raver
Pamela Finley - Debutante Glitch
Daniel J Gonzales - Sniper
Jared Ortega - Raver
Paul J. Porter - Mohawk Raver
Dan Strakal - Television Executive
TJ Williams - Muscular Jogger
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Plot: In 2034, mind-control technology has taken society by storm. Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) has revolutionized the gaming industry with his invention of self-replicating nanites. The nanites colonize in the brain, gradually taking over the existing brain cells and allowing full control of all motor functions by a third party. The first off-shoot of this technology was Society, an online community in which gamers pay to control a real person in a pseudo community, much like current simulated worlds such as Second Life. Those who work as characters in Society are paid for their participation, unlike Castle's latest creation, Slayers. A multiplayer, first-person shooter game, Slayers allows gamers to control death row prisoners in mass-scale death matches. Any inmate who lives through 30 matches wins his freedom. Simon, a 17-year old trust fund baby (Logan Lerman), controls Kable (Gerard Butler), the online champion of the game, having won 27 matches and lived through them all. Slayers and Society are hugely popular, making Castle the richest man in America within a matter of weeks. However, Castle's organization is the target of a activist group called Humanz, who claim the nanite technology has a more ominous purpose. When a virus hacks into the video mainstreams broadcasting a message from the elusive rebel group, Simon is offered the chance to communicate with Kable while in-game, which is not allowed. After a stranger gives Kable a warning that the game's mastermind plans to kill him, Kable asks Simon to relinquish control and uses the opportunity to escape.
Kable is taken to the rebels' leader (Ludacris) who explains that the mind control technology used on Kable and the other Slayers can potentially be used without discretion on anyone, leading to the extinction of independent thought. He also gives Kable directions to where he can break his wife out of Society, where she has been working as a character since his incarceration. Kable arrives, and, after a brief shootout with security, manages to escape with his wife. While the rebels attempt to deactivate the cells from his wife's mind that make the mind control possible, Kable is taken into another room. The leader reveals that Kable was once a soldier, working on a future cellular control project. His friend was the first to receive the cell transplant. However, Castle decided to discover the true limits of the mind control and force Kable to kill his friend, leading to his conviction for first-degree murder and subsequent death row sentence.
Some four years later, the game Slayers came out, with Kable as one of the leading stars. Kable is then informed that his daughter has been placed with a foster family...Castle himself. Kable infiltrates Castles' mansion, but is confronted by Castle who is singing and dancing to music, all the while forcing other death row inmates to dance along with him. After a brief fight between Kable and the inmates, Castle leads him into a room with a large basketball court. Castle reveals that he also received the transplant, however, the cellular structure in him allows him to control anyone else who has the cells. This is proven when, having obtained a knife, Kable attempts to kill Castle only to find himself frozen still. Castle then savagely beats Kable and brings in his wife and daughter. Meanwhile, rebel members manage to broadcast their confrontation all over the world.
Kable is forced to crawl to his family, and Castle then attempts to force him to kill his own daughter. After a brief struggle of wills, Kable manages to move the knife away. Simon then returns in control of Kable and, using his controller software that he uses to control Kable in-game, Kable tricks Castle into using his controlling cells to stab himself in the stomach. After Castle dies, Kable requests for Castles' employees, who have been watching, to release the family from their control. They do this, and, with the words "Well played, Kable", depart. The movie then ends with Kable driving through a tunnel in Glacier National Park with his daughter and wife in the car
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