Gamer

I ended up seeing this movie by mistake. We were supposed to go see Inglorious Bastards but we ended up being an hour late and among the various plethora of new movies playing, Gamer happened to be just starting so we bought some popcorn and headed into the dark room.

Now I'm not going to say I regretted buying the tickets, but the movie certainly flopped for me. Basically take Death Race, use the exact same premise only with prisoners being used as 'avatars' for gamers worldwide. Now take everything that was good or at least decent with Death Race and replace with ambiguous sex scenes for Gamer. That's about the entire movie, blowing stuff up and girls making out. (A movie made by men, for men) It was quite simply too much with too little actual movie to back it up. The hints of plot line buried deep inside the movie hint towards a grand conspiracy, but I stopped caring after the first five minutes.

Now some people may say that Terminator Salvation is like that, but at least Terminator Salvation delivered lots of action on epic scales with decent amounts of creativity. Gamer doesn't pull anything you haven't seen playing Call of Duty 4.

My opinion, if you have cash to burn and seriously have nothing to do, then you could consider watching Gamer, otherwise, just watch Death Race and play CoD4.

Now I must go annoy Cynthia!