Now Playing: “Gamer”
September 5, 2009 by Jeanne Dupuis
Filed under Movies
Gamer hit theaters yesterday and I’m not sure how it will fare against the romantic comedy All About Steve but I’m guessing it will attract some curious movie-goers, especially since the cast is fairly impressive and includes Gerard Butler (300) and Michael C. Hall (Dexter).
image: Lionsgate
Last week, I speculated about whether this movie would make people more leery of the gaming community and technology so I’m hoping they present their storyline in a way that isn’t blatantly anti-gaming.
The film takes place in the future and humans are actually the pawns of online gamers who control their actions through mind-control technology. The whack job who created the program, Ken Castle (Hall), has taken it to the next level by introducing a first-person shooter game called Slayers which allows gamers to use their humans to act out their worst fantasies with people actually fighting to the death.
It’s all up to Kable (Butler), one of these prisoners, to save the world since he’s become a popular character among fans and tries to bank on the skills he has used (while being controlled) to reclaim his life and, of course, put an end to Castle’s craziness.
