Published on: 19th August, 2009
Release Date: 4th September, 2009
Director: Brain Taylor, Mark Neveldine
Producer: Gary Lucchesi, Richard S. Wright, Skip Williamson, Tom Rosenberg
Starring: Alison Lohman, Amber Valletta, Gerard Butler, Kyra Sedqwick, Ludacris.
Genre: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
‘Gamer’ is a racy, gripping, action movie set in the imminent future that delves into how moralities take a backseat under the pretext of the gaming entertainment craze that has perilously metamorphosed into a novel amalgam. It is a sadistic state-of-affairs wherein hapless individuals become pawns at the hands of those who seek dismal pleasures engaging in the use of the wide-scaling, mind-manoeuvring and multi-playing online gaming concept.
A futuristic scenario when death row convicts are left with no option but to partake in a dramatic battle in accordance with their sentence. The inmates involvement are merely physical while their minds are manipulated by video gamers who are craving for sheer thrill derived out of the most superlatively extreme, contentious and pragmatic recreation achievable.
The brainchild of the litigious games is the cloistered billionaire, Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall) who newest pet project ‘Slayers’ is a foremost-person shooting game enabling many to enact their inmost derelict desires online, affront worldwide spectators employing real-life captives like Kable played by Gerard Butler who is the megastar and trendy conqueror of the ultra-aggressive game.
Kable is the hock at the hands of Simon, a juvenile gamer with luminary eminence who persistently flouts all odds by swerving Kable to triumph every week. Forcibly filched from his kin, detained and compelled against will to clash, the contemporary gladiator must endure till the opportune time he can flee the game to liberate his family, recoup his individuality and salvage mankind from Castle’s merciless technology.