Review of Gamer (2009) by Fredrik J — 19 Dec 2010
In a near future society, death row inmates are given a chance of freedom by participating as living characters in an ultra violent videogame. Something akin to a next gen version of The Running Man, Gamer manages to be even more vacuous and daft than its Stephen King penned predecessor.
A sterling example of everything that's wrong with contemporary cinema, it was clearly directed by a retard with ADHD and is full of enough irritating and pointless camera trickery to make Tony Scott blush.
The empty script is little more than an excuse for gratuitous violence, nudity and bad language with absolutely zero depth, characterisation or any semblance of the kind of social or political commentary that The Running Man at least attempted.
Michael C. Hall brought a little flamboyance to his evil techno-megalomaniac but the story is absolute nonsense packed to brimming with sci-fi cliches and the whole thing is little more than a videogame junkie fan-wank that's so immature and tasteless it makes Death Race look like Lawrence Of Arabia.
This review of Gamer (2009) was written by Fredrik J on 19 Dec 2010.
Gamer has generally received mixed reviews.
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