Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

educallejero This movie is unwatchable. I literally had to stop it at 25' and (with my cousin) advanced the movie to see what happened, more or less, and we watched the very last part of the "climax".This is a fine idea. Black Mirror makes the best entertainment with ideas like this one. But then: The WORST acting possible The WORST Script possible The WORST editing possible (all over the place)5.8? GET THE F OUT!

NateWatchesCoolMovies Neveldine/Taylor's Gamer is a grim, hedonistic blast of skullcrushing action and stinging social commentary that ruthlessly indicts the technological era with tongue in cheek precision. The duo are also responsible for the Crank films, which are similarly painted in broad strokes of brash, bratty attitude and kinetic, spare no limbs violence, but are pure fun. This one keeps that vibe, darkens it just a touch, and holds up a mirror that shows a sad but all too true vision of ourselves. What's scary is that it isn't even all that exaggerated. In the near future the prison systems have been privatized by corporations, including one led by the ambitious, evil Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall, even more unhinged than on Dexter). His program uses prisoners as virtual puppets, controlled by gamers out in the real world, and stages brutal all out warfare between them, observed, bet on and obsessed over the world over, like the NFL but with lethal firepower and exploding heads. The reigning champion, Kable (Gerard Butler proves again what a wicked action leading man he is), longs for freedom, and attempts to contact his controller, a stuck up rich brat (Logan Lerman is a little ball of sleaze), in order to plan his exodus from this most extreme of sports. On the outside, Kable's wife (Amber Valetta) and young daughter appeal for his release. She ends up getting entangled in a vile, R rated version of The Sims in a delightfully repulsive sequence. Kyra Sedgwick plays a morally bankrupt reporter, Ludicrous and Alison Lohman are freedom fighters raging against the powers that be, and Zoe Bell, Terry Crews, Milo Ventimiglia (playing, I kid you not, a spandex clad video game avatar named Rick Rape), Noel Gugliuemi and John Leguizamo all make memorable appearances as well. The movie, despite being ultra fast paced and often very funny, is not lighthearted fare. The action has a jarring, repellent quality that induces cringes, but is still a ton of fun to anyone who can stomach it. The irreverent tone helps as well, with rude, unmannered character interactions and smutty dialogue reflecting the filmmakers view on our spoilt, often sickening generation. Songs like Bloodhound Gang's Bad Touch and Marilyn Manson's Sweet Dreams inject additional, welcome atmosphere into the skeezy veins running through the film. Brutal. Kinetic. Sarcastic. A whole lot of fun. And you haven't lived until you've seen Butler slam a mickey of vodka and take a leak into a vehicle's gas tank, thus furthering his escape.

hudsonda4 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.

SnoopyStyle In the future, rich and powerful Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) creates a gaming environment where gamers can use real people as avatars. Eventually, he would use death row inmates in a fight to the death game called 'Slayer'. Kable (Gerard Butler) is one of those death row avatars who scrambles to gain his freedom.This is an aggressively ugly viewing experience. Everything is in-your-face. The computer interactions are in-your-face. The people are ugly in-your-face. The CGI and the flashing cuts are so distracting that the story is but a sideshow. While I want to see the premise play out, it is too tiring to maintain my interest. The idea of using real people as avatars is actually very fascinating. I just can't deal with all the bells and whistles.