Friday, May 21, 2010

Gamer (2009) *1/2

Gamer follows a wrongly convicted inmate named John Tillman (Gerard Butler) who is given an opportunity to gain his freedom by participating in a video game/TV show where he is controlled like a video game by a kid in his bedroom. There's the evil megalomaniac (Michael C. Hall) who is hell bent on destroying Tillman (named Kable in the game) and there's also the underground group that is pissing in the media mogul's punchbowl.

Honesty time: I really liked this movie- twenty plus years ago when it was called The Running Man. This teched up retread of that film is basically CGI fluff surrounded a gooey center that is essential a weak, predictable story. It's good if you want to see stuff blow up, but other than that it's worth a pass. Basic action fluff.

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