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Gamer Gamer Review – It is a is a 2009 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The film stars Gerard Butler as an unwilling participant in an online game in which participants can control human beings as players. Gamer was released in North America and the United Kingdom on September 4, 2009. In 2034, mind-control technology has taken society by storm, and a multiplayer on-line game called Slayers allows gamers to control human death row prisoners in mass-scale deathmatches. A cautionary tale issuing a dire warning about the prospects for humanity in a world where machines lead and people follow.Sci-Fi Thriller Features Humans Pawns in Deadly Mind Control Game.

Cast

Gerard Butler as Kable/John Tillman, the highest-ranked warrior in the game Slayers

Michael C. Hall as Ken Castle

Logan Lerman as Simon Silverton, who controls Kable

Milo Ventimiglia as Rick Rape, described as “Moonraker, silver grill, with a latex outfit making him look like a bumblebee.”

Aaron Yoo as Humanz Dude

Ludacris as Humanz Brother

Terry Crews as Hackman

Alison Lohman as Trace

Kyra Sedgwick as Gina Parker Smith

John Leguizamo as Freak

Keith David as Agent Keith

Johnny Whitworth as Scotch

Zoe Bell as Sandra

Amber Valletta as Angie, Kable’s wife, a controlled avatar in Society.

Efren Ramirez as DJ Twist

Sci-Fi Thriller Features Humans Pawns in Deadly Mind Control Game

If the trans-human future predicted by visionary Ray Kurzweil in his best seller The Age of Spiritual Machines is at all accurate, then it is only a matter of time before a disturbing dystopia such as the one in Gamer might come to pass. Set in 2034, the chilling, sci-fi scenario established at the outset is dominated by Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall), a diabolical billionaire with mind-control technology at his disposal.

The world has been divided into the “haves” and the “have-nots,” with the members of the former group paying Castle for the privilege of controlling the behavior of the latter group in one of two high-tech, virtual reality video games. The first is called Society, a perverse variation of Sim City where players get to direct human beings with computer chips implanted in their brains living in a simulated, social-networking community. Given the voyeuristic nature of the kinky creeps with the joysticks in their hands, it is no surprise that the less fortunate participants often find themselves forced to mate with complete strangers or to engage in bizarre sex acts against their will.

The other interactive game is called Slayers and features condemned convicted murderers promised their liberty if they manage to survive a series of 30 death matches in a row. Here, we are introduced to the picture’s protagonist, Kable (Gerard Butler), a popular contestant who has captured the imagination of millions of viewers by prevailing in mortal combat 27 times thus far.

He owes a debt of gratitude to 17 year-old Simon (Logan Lerman), the spoiled-rotten preppie controlling his every move from an easy chair. Still, despite being so close to victory, the wrongly-convicted Kable is fixated on wrested back control of his own mind in order to vindicate his name, settle a score with Castle and ultimately reunite with his wife Angie (Amber Valletta) and their young daughter Delia (Brighid Fleming). Of course, this proves easier said than done, especially since his gorgeous spouse is currently a sex slave stuck in Society’s parallel universe where she’s been programmed to fuel the depraved fantasies of the rubbery eunuch (Ramsey Moore) who purchased her services.

Fortunately, a futuristic cavalry arrives in an underground resistance movement led by Humanz Brother (Ludacris), a hacker with street cred who attempts to shake folks out of their complacency with tough love like “You’re just another poor, little rich honky… Do you feel me?” Such cornball dialogue aside, Gamer is nonetheless, worthwhile between its intriguing, thought-provoking premise and the array of eye-popping special effects on display during its hyperbolic fight sequences.

A cautionary tale issuing a dire warning about the prospects for humanity in a world where machines lead and people follow.

Very Good (3 stars)

Rated R for nudity, sexuality, profanity and pervasive graphic violence.

Running time: 95 minutes

Studio: Lionsgate Films

To see a trailer for, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ubYTIazskQ

Kam Williams is a syndicated film and book critic who writes for 100+ publications. He is a member of the New York Film Critics Online, the African-American Film Critics Association, and the NAACP Image Awards Nominating Committee. Contact him through NewsBlaze.

Cast

Gerard Butler as Kable/John Tillman, the highest-ranked warrior in the game Slayers[2]

Michael C. Hall as Ken Castle[2]

Logan Lerman as Simon Silverton, who controls Kable[3]

Milo Ventimiglia as Rick Rape, described as “Moonraker, silver grill, with a latex outfit making him look like a bumblebee.”[4]

Aaron Yoo[5] as Humanz Dude

Ludacris[6] as Humanz Brother

Terry Crews as Hackman

Alison Lohman as Trace[6]

Kyra Sedgwick as Gina Parker Smith[2]

John Leguizamo as Freak[6]

Keith David as Agent Keith

Johnny Whitworth as Scotch[6]

Zoe Bell as Sandra[6]

Amber Valletta as Angie, Kable’s wife, a controlled avatar in Society.[6]

Efren Ramirez as DJ Twist[6]

Gamer is a 2009 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The film stars Gerard Butler as an unwilling participant in an online game in which participants can control human beings as players. Gamer was released in North America and the United Kingdom on September 4, 2009.

In 2034, mind-control technology has taken society by storm, and a multiplayer on-line game called Slayers allows gamers to control human death row prisoners in mass-scale deathmatches. Any inmate who lives through 30 matches wins his freedom. Simon (Logan Lerman) controls Kable (Gerard Butler), the on-line champion of the game, having won 27 matches and lived through them all. When a virus hacks into the video mainstreams broadcasting a message from an elusive rebel group, Simon is offered the chance to communicate with Kable while in-game, which is not allowed. After a stranger gives Kable a warning that the game’s mastermind plans to kill him, Kable is broken out by using a truck in-game.

Kable is taken to the rebels leader (Ludacris) who explains that the mind control technology used on Kable and the other Slayers can potentially be used without discretion on anyone, potentially leading to the extinction of independent thought. He also gives Kable directions to where he can break his wife out of the mind control she is under. Kable arrives, and, after a brief shootout with security, manages to escape with his wife. While the rebels attempt to remove the cells from his wifes mind that make the mind control possible, Kable is taken into another room. The leader reveals that Kable was once a soldier, working on a future cellular control project. His friend was the first to receive the cell transplant. However, the owner of the game Slayers, a billionaire named Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall), decided to discover the true limits of the mind control. After forcing Kable to kill his friend, Kable is convicted of first degree murder.

Some four years later, the game Slayers came out, with Kable as one of the leading stars. Kable is then informed that his daughter was with a foster family, which happens to be Castle himself. Kable infiltrates Castles’ mansion, but is confronted by Castle who is singing and dancing to music, all the while forcing other death row inmates to dance along with him. After a brief fight between Kable and the inmates, Castle leads him into a room with a large basketball court. Castle reveals that he also received the transplant, however, the cellular structure in him allows him to control anyone else who has the cells. This is proven when, having obtained a knife, Kable attempts to kill Castle only to find himself frozen still. Castle then savagely beats Kable and brings in his wife and daughter. Meanwhile, rebel members manage to broadcast their confrontation all over the world.

Kable is forced to crawl to his family, and Castle then attempts to force him to kill his own daughter. After a brief struggle of wills, Kable manages to move the knife away. Simon then returns in control of Kable and, using his controller software that he uses to control Kable in-game, Kable barely manages to stab Castle in the stomach. After Castle dies, Kable requests for Castles’ employees, who have been watching, to release the family from their control. They do this, and, with the words “Well played, Kable”, depart. The movie then ends with Kable driving through a tunnel in the middle of nowhere with his daughter and wife in the car.[1]

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