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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Gamer (September 4, 2009) R

Starring:
Gerard Butler (300 2006, The Bounty Hunter 2010)
Amber Valleta (Transporter 2 2005, The Spy Next Door 2010)
Michael C. Hall ("Dexter" 2006-2009, East Fifth Bliss 2010)
Alison Lohman (Matchstick Men 2003, Drag Me to Hell 2009)

Definitely a GUY movie. Gerard Butler should ALWAYS have a large machine-gun in his hand. Even in real life today, right now, I hope he has a machine-gun with him because life is better when he has one.

If you've seen trailers than you've probably figured out that Gerard Butler plays the character Kable, a death-row-destined prison inmate who chooses to participate in a kill-or-be-killed real-life video game in exchange for the chance to win his freedom.
Gamer depicts a near-futuristic world where nano technology has made virtual-reality more like plain ol' reality. If you can pay, you can play, and your "avatar" isn't some 3-D animated video game character. Rather, you control an actual person in a real location somewhere in the world.
Some pay to control others, some get payed to let themselves be controlled.

Plenty of violence and enough plot to justify all of it.
Great acting but, lets face it, who cares about the acting in a movie like this?
Great movie. All dudes should see it.

Factoid: During shooting, Gerard Butler toted around a Radio Flyer wagon with weights on it that he used to work-out between takes.

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