Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

educallejero This movie is unwatchable. I literally had to stop it at 25' and (with my cousin) advanced the movie to see what happened, more or less, and we watched the very last part of the "climax".This is a fine idea. Black Mirror makes the best entertainment with ideas like this one. But then: The WORST acting possible The WORST Script possible The WORST editing possible (all over the place)5.8? GET THE F OUT!

Screen_Blitz Director Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor brought the thrills and impressive visuals in the film Crank (2006) and its sequels. Here in this sci-fi action thriller, not so much. Set in the near-future when humans are able to control others through mind control, Michael C. Hall (Dexter) plays Ken Castle, a technological genius who runs a live-action online third-person shooter game known as "Slayers", where prisoners are pulled out of death row and forced to battle in a gun-blazing fight to the death; on live television. The last man left alive at the end of the game wins his freedom. Gerard Butler plays Kable, a prisoner who must fight to the end and make it out alive to get back to his wife and daughter. Logan Lerman plays Simon, a cocky, but expert gamer who controls Kable in the game. While this film follows an undoubtedly interesting premise and boasts some great action sequences, it suffers from an extreme lack of substance and execution; here is why. The plot development is very clumsy and goes in many directions it doesn't need to go. As it follows Gerard Butler's character Kable trying to make to the last round of the game, he learn that Michael C. Hall's character (the bad guy) is plotting to kill him. We are never given the motive as to why he doing it or what he wants from Kable exactly. Towards the climax, the plot transcends into this ridiculous convoluted mess where nothing makes sense anymore. As a case in point, the characters feel one- dimensional and hard to care about. Secondly, throughout the film while we are being treated with these unflinching bloody and violent shootouts, there is an unnecessary amount of sexual intercourse and nudity. Basically whats goes on in these scenes, is men and women who are sort of like avatars in the game world, flashing their breasts, flashing their bottoms, or engaging in sexual activity and what not; and it is just so unnecessary. These scenes are very misogynistic (especially with Amber Valleta's character) and are designed to just make the audiences uncomfortable. Then there are these other scenes that are just straight up perverted. It makes the movie look more like a porno. And the worst part is, the players on the outside controlling them. This film seems to aim to be more exploitative than realistic. Don't get wrong, I am have seen movies like this, but this is one just makes it unpleasant. Overall, Gamer is a bit of a mess. This film not only runs on a horrifically bad script, but is very crude, loathsome, and tries it hardest to make viewers uncomfortable. Basically, if you have a problem with extreme violence, sex, and nudity; you are definitely gonna hate this movie. Even if you are a big video game addict, you still have very little chance of enjoying this.

AverageStalker This film is pure trash. No characters are given any depth whatsoever- not even the protagonist. Every person in the movie is basically made out to be a sadistic, murder loving, soulless beast.If such a program as "society" were to actually be created, it would serve one purpose alone: sex. That's all people would care about it for. That being said, murder follows sex. So if, as the movie claims, "people who are being controlled are paid to be controlled", you would basically be agreeing to be a human sex doll that would contract HIV within a few days and have a pretty solid shot at being murdered in a torturous manner. I don't even think the most destitute and desperate of people would step forward at that opportunity. I'd rather rob people than allow myself to be controlled by a teenager for the means of having a train run on me.Then comes the issue of "slayers". "They are death row inmates," says the movie. But if you compare the number of gamers in our world to the number of people awaiting execution, you are left with an absurd ratio that immediately indicates that such a premise is completely impossible. It is impossible to suspend your disbelief during this movie.The special effects are garbage. Casualties are treated as blood-filled water balloons that burst when hit. The blood looks more like play-DOE than it does liquid. The "wife" doesn't have a single line of dialog. The majority of society doesn't seem to care about any of the prisoner's struggles because they are "convicted", and yet all of the world has a sudden epiphany at the end and changes sides. Even the names of the factions are corny. 'Humanz'? Really? You couldn't think of a better name for the resistance? The "bad guy" is such a bad actor that I truly believe I could do better myself. Laugh randomly and make crappy puns, got it. Show no emotion and give no logical explanation for your sociopath behavior. Oh, I almost forgot: one does not simply chug an entire bottle of vodka, run across a battlefield, vomit into a car engine and then urinate into it, and then use that as fuel to drive away. The logistics of this are horrendous.I can't even bring myself to give this film 2 stars. I'd give it 0 if I could. The very premise of it is ridiculous. The dialog is extremely over-dramatic and poorly written. There isn't a single good quote in the entire movie.AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Forgive my spelling errors as IMDb spell-check refused to allow me to entire the correct spelling of some words.

suecat-1 If you like watching a huge fat man getting off via virtual reality, then this is a movie for you. If you want to see lots of bare breasts, mostly exposed derrières, and hot actors, then this is a movie for you.If however, you want a movie with a plot, developed characters, and some decent acting, then you many want to pass on this one.Lots of sex- and violence-related scenes, way too many holes in how the premise of the movie actually works, aka...plenty of time to raid the fridge.I love Gerard Butler, but this is beneath his abilities. I've seen him in a half dozen other films and he shined. Here, you spend half the movie trying to figure out why he would ever have agreed to filming this movie. Maybe just a run at more money, or maybe he didn't know the reality of the direction of this film.It is a violent shoot'em up kind of flick and I did watch it to the end. I'd never spend my time watching it again, though. Nuff said.