Gamer [2009] (DVD) Reviews

In 2034, Ken Castle, the America's richest man, has come up with a mind-control game that enables players to control other human being's actions. The most successful player of the game is Kable, who is controlled by Simon and is forced to kill his best friend. this leads to a murder conviction and time on death row. Then Castle comes up with a ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room Mark Nelvedine and Brian Taylor made a name for themselves with the utterly bonkers Crank films, and there was the hope they could strike lucky thrice with the seemingly ridiculous Gamer. This is no Crank 2, but it's still a rather entertaining guilty pleasure, even if it's ...  Read the complete review

This film was not as bad as I had been led to beleive from some of the reviews I had read about it, it is not great but it is not a total turkey. t times I found it to be a quite stylish film and while there are some obvious plot flaws to the film it does have its interesting moments. Set in the future society is dominated by the ...  Read the complete review

In 2034, Ken Castle has changed the world by creating mind-control technology and turning them into simulation games. These games involve taking control of a real person and sending them into a society to do with them as you wish, playing them against other people. Society was his first game where characters could do anything they wanted and be ...  Read the complete review

"The ultimate game show" said Chuck Barris, creator of the Gong Show, "would be one where the losing contestant was killed." The Etruscans started it. But it was the Romans who marketed it to the world as a popular event. Civilisation it might have been, but the Empire was capable of some thoroughly nasty deeds, not ...  Read the complete review

'Gamer' is a film I really wanted to like. The trailer set things up nicely and it starred two of my favourite actors, Gerald Butler and Michael C Hall (of Dexter fame), what could go wrong? Sadly plenty. Set around 25 years in the future the film shows a world where social networking and virtual reality have evolved to produce online ...  Read the complete review

Gamer is set in the near future where the public are addicted to two online games owned by the Castle corporation, called Society and Slayer. They are both exactly what they sound like, a social game where people get to meet people, go to nightclubs and have sex, and a battle game where the players get to kill each other The thing that fascinates ...  Read the complete review

You'd have thought computer games and films were made for each other: the strong visual style and non-stop action of games perfect for a piece of mindless Hollywood entertainment. Yet, it's the one genre La La Land has never really mastered. For every War Games, there are 5 Resident Evils; every Tron is outnumbered by 3 Super Mario Brothers. Now ...  Read the complete review