“Gamer” Is a Sex and Violence Epic With Balls

The awesomeness of victimisation moving picture Gamer is going to storm you . pack with insane violence , effete sex , and ( yes ! ) musical numbers , the movie is a blood - dark satire of futuristic videogame refinement that will crowd all your buttons . Spoilers ahead !

Made by sleaze auteurs Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor , who previously add you the Crank serial publication , Gamer perfectly charm the horror and appeal of videogames . Set a few year in the future , Gamer is about what happens when biotech advancement make videogames completely existent . Psychotic inventor Ken Castle – played by Dexter ’s Michael C. Hall in an inspired moment of cast – has invented a scientifically laughable shape of remote - curb cell that can replace your mentality cellphone . Inject some of his gook , and your mental capacity turn to “ Nanex , ” a nanotech cortex that gives your head a unique IP speech and lets people control you remotely .

Castle bring in Nanex to the humankind via a plot called Society , which is a thin - veil character to monolithic multiplayer plot Second Life . Filled with raver and vamps , Society is an alternating world where remote control - curb actor go to be controlled by gamers who sit at home dictate their every move . ( In one horrific scene , we see a vamp up - up char in Society who is hold by an weighty humans sitting in front of a bank of monitors . As he slurps up a chain reactor of greasy waffle , he forces her to bang everything in peck . ) The game build Castle implausibly rich . With a creepy-crawly smiling , he explain to a television journalist , “ People pay to command , and they compensate to be controlled . ”

Now , however , Castle has released a new game called Slayers . Gamers control convicts in a deadly scrap scenario , and biz tax income go to assert the prison organisation . The government is a big investor in the secret plan , and our hoagie Kable ( an fittingly badass Gerard Butler ) is its biggest star . check by 17 - year - old game champ Simon , Kable is on his way to getting out of jail because he ’s survived so many round in Slayers . But , of form , Castle does n’t require Kable ever to get out .

Meanwhile , a grouping of biohacker revolutionist called the Humanz are interrupting the Nanex organisation , sending out pirate dissent broadcasts and sour on ways to screen multitude ’s nanobrains from mind - dominance signals . They want to help Kable escape and get back to his family . And of class Kable ’s wife – who work as a fuckdoll in Society – wants nothing more than to get her below the belt imprisoned hubby back .

Like Neveldine and Page ’s previous films , Gamer is awash in the balletic , stuttering violence of videogames . The scenes of combat in the Slayers biz are acute , gory , and shocking . This is the kind of moving picture whose first course of negotiation is , “ You fucking teabagged him ! ” Though we ’re given rich opportunity to revel in the violence and brassy sex of Castle ’s gameworlds , we also never forget that an all - emcompassing abasement seeps out of them into the real humankind . Gamer is intensely conflicted about the pleasures afforded by gaming .

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And in the ending it ’s that struggle that makes this moving-picture show such a winningly demented satire . The unsound hombre , covered in gore , blab piddling songs about how they ’re about to frag the in effect guy . A warehouse full of blanged - out raver from Society get hook in day - glo entrails when Castle ’s goons assail . Even Castle has an unbelievable zombie terpsichore number , surrounded by his mind - controlled videogame - slurp minions , who stick to his every lilliputian shufflestep because he ’s beaming his moves straight to their Nanex .

Will Kable escape and deliver his sexbot honey ? Will the Humanz bring down Castle ? Can anything ever really be resolve in a world where all our brains have been supplant with nanogoo that diffuse our IP addresses over the Nanex web ? These questions , and their resolution , may be predictable . But every other part of Gamer is bizarre and original , from the despicable - beautiful concept intent to the leftover human relationship that constitute between gamer Simon and meatpuppet Kable . Go see Gamer for the lulz , but stay for a burning vision of your fucked up future .

Gamer open widely across the US today .

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