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Critic Kim Newman
rated 6

An injection of adrenaline straight to the eye – which isn’t entirely a bad thing.

Read full review at Empire
Critic Josh Modell
rated 3

Butler makes a daring escape in one of the only Gamer scenes that rivals any of Crank’s: He chugs a bottle of vodka, then pukes and urinates it into a gas tank in order to fuel his getaway vehicle.

Read full review at The A.V. Club

Cast & Crew

Lloyd Kaufman
As Genericon
Lloyd Kaufman
Director
Mark Neveldine
Director
Brian Taylor
Director
Brian Taylor
Writer
John Leguizamo
As Freek

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In a dystopian future where mind-control technology has taken over society, a multiplayer online game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. The game's creator, Ken Castle, has become the richest man in the world. The game's champion, John "Kable" Tillman, is controlled by a 17-year-old gamer named Simon. However, an activist organization called the "Humanz" tries to stop the game and free Kable. Kable ultimately escapes and rescues his wife, Angie, from Society. He then learns that Castle is the wealthy father who adopted his daughter Delia and infiltrates his mansion to get her back.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Gamer include Children of Men, Inception, Next, V for Vendetta, The Maze Runner, I Am Number Four.

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Gamer was released in theaters on September 4, 2009.