Review – Gamer

Once again we get a sci fi movie that’s all premise. The wouldn’t-it-be-cool twist is that video games have become real. Players electronically mind-meld with actors and then live life through their surrogates in one of two environments: Society (a Sims-esque neighborhood that appears to be primarily devoted to kinky sex) and Slayer (a violent first person shooter in which the characters actually get shot). And as usual with such productions, it’s all wind-up and no pitch. The plot meanders all over the place. The action sequences – the heart of a picture like this – are too jittery to follow. Hero Gerard Butler and villain Michael C. Hall have both done better work elsewhere. Overall this is just one more case-in-point for the observation that “fast and loud” aren’t incompatible with “dull.” See if desperate