THIS IS STUPID!

Gamer, Gerald Butler's star vehicle gives the bastard child of mixing The Running Man with Death Race and he owes us all an apology.

I have suffered through more than my fair share of crappy movies. I've seen moronic movies, dumb movies, feckless movies even embarrassingly misguided ones. Of those bad movies it is common to see the reason why it was made. There is generally a hook or concept threaded somewhere in the presentation that shows there was someone thinking someone at one time. I couldn't find one such concept here.

This is the deposit of the writing team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the guys who are responsible for (or should I say guilty of) Crank. Which, by the way, has one of those pitch-ready concepts at its core (a violent British thug has to keep his adrenaline up or he will die (Speed meets The Transporter). In this go-around they manage the Herculean effort of making Crank seem like it was penned by Moliere.

Here is the synopsis torn off of IMDb:

Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star player from a game called "Slayers" looks to regain his independence while taking down the game's mastermind.

Odd that this movie has a script, it didn't need one. They could have just pieced together random images of explosions, bullet wounds and oil, muscled men carrying weapons and it would have been roughly the same.

If for no other reason, you should skip this film because they actually cast Ludacris as someone other than a drooling moron. We're asked to believe he's computer savvy. I guess Britany Spears was unavailable during the shooting schedule.




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