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Reviews Counted:68
Fresh:20
Rotten:48
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: With all of the hyperkinetic action and none of the flair of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's earlier work, Gamer has little replay value.
Rated: 18 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Theatrical Release:18-09-2009
Synopsis: GAMER is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online... [More]
Starring: Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Kyra Sedgwick
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
There's a reason Neveldine and Taylor have been heralded by action junkies as potential saviors of the genre -- after years of interchangeable formulaic entries, they're giving audiences something different yet familiar at the same time. Is it perfect? Ha
Stunningly impersonal and underdeveloped, Gamer consists of pawns posing as people going through the motions of directors Neveldine's and Taylor's ugly orgy of style over substance.
It should be ridiculously easy to have fun with a concept like this, but the joyless, coarse, bordering-on-hostile way this whole thing is put together just smacks of contempt for not only the audience, but storytelling in general.
Neveldine and Taylor simply spray their venom across the screen with little vision, once again making a friendly trip to the multiplex feel like undeserved torture.
Neveldine & Taylor certainly have no shortage of ideas but their fundamental flaw is that as filmmakers, they have no idea of how to properly execute them.
Unfortunately, most of the ideas Neveldine and Taylor use to create an alterna-world in "Gamer" were already used to better effect in the brilliantly crappy "Crank."
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Gamer grabs you by the back of the head and runs you through a minefield with internal organs flying at you around every corner...It's fast, mean and dirty as all hell.
September 04, 2009:
Neveldine and Taylor Talk Gamer 
It's a happy weekend for action lovers any time Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have a movie heading into theaters -- and in a new interview with Collider, the writing/directing... More...
July 02, 2009:
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May 25, 2009:
Trailer & Poster review
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May 11, 2009:
This movie has undergone more title changes than Madonna adopting Third-World children!
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