GAMER

 

 

 

Gamer stars Gerard Butler (who starred in the earlier-reviewed The Ugly Truth and 300) as a death row prisoner who agrees to take part in a "reality" show where he has a special chip implanted in his brain so he can be controlled by a "gamer" where he literally fights for his freedom with other death row inmates. As it turns out, Gerard's character was set up for murder--he did it but he was "made" to do it; get it?--so he can participate and subsequently be killed in said "reality" show because he apparently knows all about the program that was created by this megalomaniac Bill Gates-type computer genius. Actually, the plot to this flick sounds suspiciously a lot like the "plot" to the earlier-reviewed Death Race. Hell, even the car chase scenes look like those in DR! In any case, Gamer isn't too bad of a sci-fi flick in spite of its poor reviews and its lackluster box office performance. Most of all, this flick--sort of like the earlier-reviewed flick Idiocracy--paints a scenario that could very well happen in  this country in the not-so-distant future. Don't think it could happen, that this is merely a movie? Well, Butler's hot-looking wife in the film--played by ultra hot model Amber Valletta--makes her living since her husband's incarceration as a real life avatar in a Sims-type real life video game where she, too, is being "controlled"--by this fat greasy creepy guy--to do his bidding. Now, I ask you, how many people would want a job like THAT? Still think it couldn't happen in this country? A sidenote: This flick contains one of the grossest movie scenes I've ever seen--and, trust me, I've seen quite a few of them!--where, during Gerard's escape, he steals a car and "fuels" it by throwing up into the gas tank and then taking a piss into it after he drinks a whole bottle of hooch. Just make sure you're not eating anything during this scene, all right?