Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir #66. Gamer

Genre: action/sci-fi

Annee/Year: 2009

Format: Blu Ray

Gamer. This movie was targeted at the wrong crowd. They marketed it at the teens but the good concepts in this movie are lost ot this crowd. My feeling is that this was a really interesting but maybe too intellectual story which got re written as an action movie. Unfortunately it fails at both but this makes it even more frustrating that the interesting concepts are not used to their full potential. It ends up as a super violent action flick. Gerard Butler plays a convict named Kable, which is about to reach his goal of 30 wins to get his freedom. Not a great actor but an adequate performance. The film is perfectly produced with fantastic special FX and great shooting.

When one starts exploiting such concepts as:
- using convicts as reality game players with freedom as ultimate prize
- remotely controlling other humans for game purpose
- really cool User Interface concepts
- remotely controling humans for a virtual world of sex, drugs and rock &roll
This movie touches some interesting concepts such as the movie "Clone" which can make you think. But because mostly kids will watch it this is lost to them as most kids wont understand or bother with this.

The movie was produced by Neveldine and Taylor which also made the Crank movies and Jonah Hex (not much hope there). Too bad they failed at taking this more interesting turn. It could have been so much more.

Gamer est un film ultra violent et sans script trop intéressant. Il a été vendu aux ados, mais cela a tué le film. Cette situation est frustrante, car on peut voir un bon film sous la version finale. Plusieurs concepts de science-fiction intéressants sont utilisés, mais sans les utiliser pour faire un bon film. On les jette et passe à l'action sanglante...too bad.

Great quotes:

Kable: [For the first time, Kable is speaking with Simon, his controller in the game] You sound like a little kid.
Simon: I'm seventeen, actually.
Kable: Jesus Christ, why am I not dead yet?
Simon: Because I am a bad ass motherfucker
...
Ken Castle: I hope one day to have the opportunity to breach your firewall, Miss Parker Smith. [kisses her hand]
...
Upgrade Guard: Who aims?
Kable: What?
Upgrade Guard: Who aims? The player or the slayer?
Kable: I'm the hand. Someone, somewhere else is the eye.

Link: http://gamerthemovie.com/

Rating perso: 6.5/10