Review: Gamer

Most of you have seen the ads the past couple of weeks for this movie. In one ad I heard that it was the "Last action movie of the summer". If so, the summer ended on a sour note. Gamer is the newest film starring Gerard Butler and yes he does take his shirt off in this movie. All jokes aside, Gamer, follows Kable an inmate on death row who has agreed to play in a real video game called Slayers. Through a process revealed early on in the movie, players are remotely controlled by normal people, who are fully aware that they are controlling real humans. The agreement is that any prisoner that plays 30 rounds and lives gets freed.

I won't go into further detail because there is no much else to go into. Gamer is thin on dialogue and thin on plot. The idea is somewhat borrowed, but that is forgivable. The premise was a good starting point and could have evolved into a great film. Unfortunately, you are thrown into the world of Gamer without even a text introduction. You have little back story of the main character and you find it difficult to care for him. The acting was sub-par and that is a shame. Many of the main characters are very good actors and their talents were not fully utilized.

The graphics are really good, but they cannot make up for the way the movie played out. Basically, you sit and stare at the screen for about 1hr 47min and wonder what's going on. The story is not hard to follow, but the lack of a plot makes you question why some scenes are in the movie. Gamer is a very violent, hard core action movie, but after all that action you sit through, the ending is very anti-climactic.

I'm going to stop dragging this out and give the movie the rating I thought of right when the credits started to roll.

Stand Outside Your Local Theater and Warn People!!!!!!!!!!!!!!