Some of you may be asking "What is Gamer?" Is that a movie? No, it's an attempt at a movie and they just so happened to put the amazing Gerard Butler in it.
I swear there were at least four times where I was literally laughing out loud in the theater. You might think that rude of me, but rest assured, I was not the only one.
All right, so the movie idea was a stellar thought, every gamer's fantasy is to directly control your character within a game.
Slayer, the "game," allows game players absolute, direct control over the actions of their game characters. Here is the twist: the characters are actually convicts, injected with mind-controlling technology and being forced to play the game for their freedom.
The game was created by Castle (Michael C. Hall), a multibillionaire genius who has invented a type of "nanotechnology" that is implanted in people's brains and allows them to be remotely controlled by a user. Slayer is the killing game and Society is just stupid. The only gamer we actually see playing Society, where users can make their players do anything, and boy do I mean anything, with other players' characters, is a grotesquely fat, shirtless gamer dipping waffles into syrup. I threw up in my mouth a little.
Eventually we blindly stumble upon Simon, the teenage gamer equipped with terrible lines and an even worse chance at having anything positive for his career come from this movie.
Simon soon learns from a "video game anarchist" played by, wait for it, yes, Ludacris, that he can release Kable. Simon moronically agrees to this and helps Kable escape from Slayer and break into the Society game.
At this point in the movie they tell us that Gerard's character used to be some kind of special forces person who was tricked by Castle into being injected with the nano... stuff. I don't know really because by this time I was Googling the department responsible for refunding wasted time.
I won't tell you how this gem ends because I feel it would be an injustice to you. This movie is on its way out of theaters and will be making its way to shelves soon.
Such a disappointment from the actor that made 300 a movie that made millions of college-age young men (and women I guess) long to hit something with a big shield. I digress the rest of my feelings to say this was one movie where I was glad to see the "game over" screen.
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