Gamer

Lionsgate | Release Date: September 4, 2009

4.7	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 282 Ratings

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RexxH.Sep 5, 2009

The directors might as well spend weekends remixing videos of speeches on C-SPAN. No sooner did they espy the cool script, than both directors set out to create this movie with something of condescending scorn. Wasting Ludacris' skills The directors might as well spend weekends remixing videos of speeches on C-SPAN. No sooner did they espy the cool script, than both directors set out to create this movie with something of condescending scorn. Wasting Ludacris' skills and poor Gerrard Butler, who spent the entire film literally fighting to save his career. Among the notable highlights was Butler drinking liquor then commencing to take an unabashed piss into a futuristic truck. A cynical evaluation of videogame culture, virtual sex and cartoon violence filmed with urgent commercial farce. The directors were slapping high fives at a laughable elevated new school Super Mario Brother's plot enmeshed with zeitgeist themes, null character development and a phalanx of irony and cynism devoid of pedantry. Don't look for verisimilitude between saturated zombie pixels.The trailer was better than the movie. No sequel please.… Expand

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KyleD.Sep 5, 2009

Mediocre at best. This movie shows promise, but a shaky camera work and grotesque scenes of people living through a fantasy world really soured this experience for me.

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JakeKSep 9, 2009

If any one has epilepsy don't see this movie its filled with a low story line and is a cheesy fake pornographic movie!

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ClintonR.Jan 28, 2010

Its all boobs, blood, bullets and brainless. Ironically enough the only thing not "executed" in this sci-fi re-tread was the awesome concept of the script.

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BrianN.Jan 18, 2010

Decent popcorn flick, the action was great and the story, flimsy as it was, is an intriguing look into the future. Michael C. Hall and Gerard Butler handle the material they're given effortlessly but there wasn't much for them to Decent popcorn flick, the action was great and the story, flimsy as it was, is an intriguing look into the future. Michael C. Hall and Gerard Butler handle the material they're given effortlessly but there wasn't much for them to work with. John Leguizamo's character could've used more depth, but the same could be said for the rest of the cast. A worthy effort, but the averageness of this buries itself right to the core. All in all, i give it a "Meh."… Expand

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PYRiAHDec 12, 2010

Have you every wondered what it would be like if 1987's The Running Man director Paul Michael Glaser took acid laced with LSD and then directed the movie? Well friends you don't have to wait any longer because Gamer is here! Gamer is anotherHave you every wondered what it would be like if 1987's The Running Man director Paul Michael Glaser took acid laced with LSD and then directed the movie? Well friends you don't have to wait any longer because Gamer is here! Gamer is another fast paced, gory (and sometimes pointless) action film written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brain Taylor. You may recognize these guys from creating the insane Crank movies staring Jason Statham. Well it appears they only have one way of directing at the moment because Gamer is no different. With heightened colors, sounds, imagery, and a hand held camera, Gamer provides plenty of "what the hell?" moments for the audience.

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ChadS.Sep 6, 2009

Jack Earle Haley and Tatum O'Neal in Donald Ritchie's "The Bad News Bears", Ralph Macchio and Elizabeth Shue in John G. Avildsen's "The Karate Kid": What do these two on-screen couples have in common? They both played air Jack Earle Haley and Tatum O'Neal in Donald Ritchie's "The Bad News Bears", Ralph Macchio and Elizabeth Shue in John G. Avildsen's "The Karate Kid": What do these two on-screen couples have in common? They both played air hockey. With the possible exception of skeeball, an air hockey table is about as antithetical to the sex-drenched and violent-riddled simulated-reality entertainments that one could possibly get. The Humanz play air hockey(and first generation coin-operated arcade video games); the Humanz are a non-violent guerrilla organization, a peace movement whose objective is to topple over the multi-media empire run by Ken Castle(Michael C. Hall). Trace(Allison Lohman), a prison guard turned liaison, brings Kable(Gerard Butler), a flesh and blood avatar, into the lair, into her tribe, who are, in essence, a bunch of twenty-first century hippies. "Gamer" refashions the eighties into the late-sixties through its cultural artifacts in the context of its hyper-violent successors. Coin-operated games such as Defender and Galaga look like pacifist objects compared to Society and Slayers. It's the difference between pot and black tar heroin. Ludacris is fine as the group's leader, but the filmmaker should have put some aging makeup on the rapper for the sake of gravitas, and make Humanz Brother somebody who actually played these comparatively non-violent games during its heyday; somebody who wouldn't treat these eighties relics as kitsch. The filmmaker doesn't take full advantage of this generational, and yes, ideological setting. By bringing Simon(Logan Lerman) into its fold, Humanz could have utilized the air hockey table as a deprogramming tool. During his first communique with Kable, the avatar reminds his desensitized controller that he's playing with a human life. The movie in my head has the gamer squaring off against Kable with a paddle.… Expand

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StillOutcastDec 25, 2009

As a true shut in gamer, I was more excited about the computers, there graphical user interfaces, and other technology present in the film than the plot and gratuitous nudity.I give it a 5 because I really enjoyed the technology of the As a true shut in gamer, I was more excited about the computers, there graphical user interfaces, and other technology present in the film than the plot and gratuitous nudity.I give it a 5 because I really enjoyed the technology of the movie. However, you have everything this movie has but better, if you have a good first person shooter video game, a good multi-player role playing game, (and high speed internet... If you catch my drift lol).… Expand

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Captain_KirkAug 14, 2012

Yet another interesting and promising concept got wasted on a lazy mess of a movie that really doesn't have anything good going for it. The violence is pretty strong, but I could care less about action and brutality when I don't care aboutYet another interesting and promising concept got wasted on a lazy mess of a movie that really doesn't have anything good going for it. The violence is pretty strong, but I could care less about action and brutality when I don't care about the story or characters at all.… Expand