GAMER (2009)

This was a movie that had an interesting idea
as well as an interesting opening.

The film is where people almost have this
"Matrix like world set up" were video games
are played with real people as in people on the
outside of the game area control the people
on the inside of the control area.

They have this Playstation Home/Sims type of
set up which is called "Society" where you control
an actual person much like you would an avatar in the
Sims or PS Home.

Now even though that was apart of the story and world
of this film it focused more on the First Person shooter
aspect with games like Modern Warfare and Call of Duty
Now i would have to say that it does a good job of
capturing the "in game environment" with slow motion
scenes at points and the action as well as movement
of the characters including the NPC's (Non Playable
characters) for you not in the know.
Now the story revolves around Gerard Butler's character
has he is convicted of a crime and sentenced to the
"Game grind" so to speak and if he wins so many times
he will be set free and reunited with his family
and with the help of his "User" as well as others
such as Ludacris who comes off as a second rate
Morpheus.

The film in general reminded me of things like
the Running Man and The Condemned they share
that same Idea Where the "I-cons" as they are
called in this film are put in to some life or
death game situation where they must fight
their way out and the winner gets their freedom
but in this film the "players" are controlled
by an outside force in almost like a Xbox Kinect
type of set up.

I also found that the camera work and the
editing were a bit off it was alot of fast
cuts, zooms, pans and crazy popping visuals.
Alot of the movies action tries to be
stylized but I found it failed and just
ends up giving you whiplash.

Now some of the other action that wasn't all crazy
was pretty good and there was some actiony humor as well
one of the scenes that I found funny was the
interrogation one about the Sandwiches.

this movie also had I thought alot of famous faces
and of course it did have some nudity as well.
but as always if you watch this just for that then
your going to be let down.

Also some other things that were not good was I felt
the thing about the huge naked fat guy controlling the
sex woman in the "society" game was a bit cliche...

Also the dance sequence around the end of the movie was
a bit odd.. also How does puking in the gas tank of a
truck make it go?
anyway the movie was an ok action film but
in a way it seems like you see it all before when
it comes to things like the story.