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Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

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.

It's hard for me to say when the last time I saw a non-violent film was, and given that I enjoy video games myself, I thought "Gamer" would be something I would really like, especially given that I was feeling like watching Gerard Butler kick arse, with explosions on the side. I couldn't've been more wrong, and I should've seen it coming since the ultimate beginning, as the film starts with Marilyn Manson's (dreadful) cover of Eurythmics's classic song "Sweet Dreams".I'll make it short. First and foremost, the action in this film is filmed in the shakiest, most jarring manner, which actually gave me a headache; and this has never happened before. Neither when watching at home, nor at a cinema; not on 3D films, and not even on "The Hobbit"'s custom 48-fps 3D or whatever, which was quite jarring as well. The instability of most shots, combined with the fact that a lot of the shots (and most dialogues) consisted of terrible close-ups of people's faces, combined with flashing lights and an arguable cinematographic taste in contrast made the whole experience pain-inducing, as weird as that is.The characters aren't developed at all, and we are quite often left "in the dark" about their motives. Gerard Butler gives us one of his regular "tough guy" performances, and is good at it as usual, but most of the acting is unremarkable. Exceptions include Michael C. Hall's great performance as the "villain", I don't believe I've seen him in anything before, and he did look like a maniac; and Amber Valetta (who I've seen in a couple of films before) was excellent as the troubled wife of Butler, looking properly indifferent and robotic whilst under control. Keith David appears in a small cameo (and as a voice in an advert), but it was nice nonetheless.The plot? The plot is mostly nonsensical, and anything worth looking for appears to come together only after the 75-minute mark, which is, in fact, the beginning of the film's conclusion. However, the film's ending, whilst outrageous, awkward, and frankly, complete tosh, was surprisingly enjoyable.The violence is... gratuitous, and that took me by surprise. I mean, come on, I watch films with violence in them and I play violent video games. But this was still too much. I should also say that I am in fact quite disgusted with the way the future is portrayed in this film. More solace could be found even in films like "Nirvana" (1997), with its atmospheric dystopia. I do realise that this was probably the filmmakers' intention, but that does not mean that I liked it, nor that I enjoyed it.Four out of ten, because my eyes hurt, and the depiction of society was dreadful. Not three our of ten, because the ending was actually neat... despite not really logical.

The kind of sci-fi dystopia Philip K. Dick would have written if he had been a talentless hack, Gamer destroys its high-concept premise - a future where people are paid (or forced if they are convicts) to be controlled by players in online games - with an awful script and flat performances. Beefcake Gerard Butler is once again a muscled non-entity, the poor man's Stallone. Valletta, who unsurprisingly manages to be believable when her character goes into "glassy-eyed automaton" mode, is otherwise terrible. The talented Michael C. Hall is saddled with a ridiculous, smug supervillain who sings and dances around with a group of his clones in a scene which looks like something out of Naked Gun.3,5/10

This movie was an extreme let down. All that money spent for less than B movie entertainment. A lot of stuff that should have been left to the imagination was delved into for no apparent reason other than to fill time. The cheap thrills are all of B movie or less value. The actors are either under done or over done to a weird extreme. Oh, and can you say cliché to the maximum? If you like mindless entertainment that you don't have to think about this is probably the movie for you. If you want a movie that was done well with some real thought put into it pass this one by.If you want a movie exactly like this one, except done correctly, go get the movie "Surrogates" (2009). At least that movie isn't cheap garbage all the way through.