
Ken Castle is extremely rich, popular, and powerful since he invented and started exploiting the virtual online parallel reality games. In these games, people can either pay to be a user or get paid to be an 'actor' in a system of mind-control. In the ultimate version, Slayers, death row convicts act as gladiators in a desperate dim bid for survival, which no one has achieved yet. The champion, John 'Kable' Tillman, is scheduled to die just before he'd gain release, but he pe... (Full plot summary below)
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Ken Castle is extremely rich, popular, and powerful since he invented and started exploiting the virtual online parallel reality games. In these games, people can either pay to be a user or get paid to be an 'actor' in a system of mind-control. In the ultimate version, Slayers, death row convicts act as gladiators in a desperate dim bid for survival, which no one has achieved yet. The champion, John 'Kable' Tillman, is scheduled to die just before he'd gain release, but he persuades his teenage 'handler' to hand over the reins so he can fully use his talents and experience. Kable escapes to freedom, but Castle's men chase him. Kable has to fight his way back to Castle's headquarters to challenge his hidden evil plans.
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| AV ClubJosh ModellThe trouble with Gamer is that it’s weird, but not weird enough for the long haul. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfNeveldine and Taylor simply spray their venom across the screen with little vision, once again making a friendly trip to the multiplex feel like undeserved torture. |
| Dread CentralSteve "Uncle Creepy" BartonGamer grabs you by the back of the head and runs you through a minefield with internal organs flying at you around every corner...It's fast, mean and dirty as all hell. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankePerhaps the most deliriously demented film of the year. I say that with honest admiration for the deliriously demented. |
| Gazette (MD)Jeffrey Lylesattempts to lure audiences in with its fast-action but also provides a surprisingly thoughtful commentary on control and freedom and the means some will go to achieve it. |
| Suite101.comNick RogersWere Stanley Kubrick and Russ Meyer alive and their minds merged "Being John Malkovich"-style, the clash of their ids and egos might yield "Gamer." It will make you feel putrid, but it's satire that's sadistic, salacious and audaciously entertaining. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonIt's visually incomprehensible, emotionally empty, thematically nihilistic, almost entirely plotless... and it thinks those are virtues. |
| NewsBlazeKam WilliamsA cautionary tale issuing a dire warning about the prospects for humanity in a world where machines lead and people follow. |
| JoBlo's Movie EmporiumChris BumbrayIn the space of ninety minutes, we get a body count that has to be in the triple digits, loads of T & A, and even a full on musical number |
| E! OnlineLuke Y. Thompson...it's clearly intended as comedy - the two filmmakers play a constant game of "can you top this" in a manner that suggests they dared one another to make each scene loonier (and more solidly R-rated) than the last. |