Gamer (2009)

Cast: Gerard Butler, Amber Valletta, Michael C. Hall

Director: Brian Taylor, Mark Neveldine

Genre: thriller, sf, action

Going into this movie, I wasn't really expecting a lot. I had only seen
one short preview, which made it look like any other post-Running Man
fight-your-way-out-of-trouble action flick that sees the protagonist
trapped in a game show-like fantasy, going through army's of bad guys
like Pacman through so many of those little pills. I didn't know
however, that Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the writer/director duo
that brought us Crank and Crank: High Voltage, were at the helm of
Gamer. The first minutes of the movie made that distinctly clear,
though, as high powered action and fast paced kinetic camera-work
introduce us to the world of Slayer, a first-person shooter that has
its inmate characters live and die at the control(s) of real world
gamers. Movements of both players and camera and the feel of the game
are right on the money if you've ever seen shooters like Counterstrike
or Call of Du…

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