Gamer

This weeks post is about Gamer, the new movie with Gerard Butler and Ludacris. Honestly I'm glad I don't have to write that opening sentence to often as I hate all these rapper turned actors who think they actually know what they are doing. So the basic premise of this movie is that there is a new live-action online game called Slayers in which a person controls a real live inmate in a brutal shooting game. If a inmate survives 30 matches then they are granted their freedom. Hmm this sound a lot like Death Race in which if a inmate won 30 races they are set free, coincidence or just another example of Hollywood having no real original ideals anymore?

The only real good thing I can say about this movie is that they gore level is quite high due to the exploding bodies. The idea of a real person controlling a actual contestant in a online game is cool but doesn't really have a lot to do with the movie's plot. The whole plot revolves around Micheal C. Hall's (from the show Dexter) ability to control the inmates with his mind, which thankfully is explained and isn't some X-Men type mutant power.

As is usually the case in the end the good guys win and the bad guy dies. The final shots of the film are somewhat vague as it just shows Kable (Gerard Butler) driving a truck out of a tunnel with his wife and daughter. Im guessing this means no sequel, not that we are clambering for one, but knowing Hollywood we'll probably get a sequel out of this along the lines of Scanners or some other garbage.

I know this weeks review is short but I really couldn't get into the movie that much. First it just wasn't that interesting and second my mind was elsewhere while sitting in the theater. I will say this next weekend is the release of 9. Now that movie I will be actually paying attention to since I am pretty interested just from watching the previews and the short movie that was made by the same people.