This is going to be a very quick to the point review of the movie “Gamer“. Basically the plot is sort of The Running Man meets The Sims if that makes any sense. In the future a CEO developed a technology to allow people to control other real people in video games. He first uses it to put out a sort of real life Sims game where people pay to control people and the people getting controlled get paid. But then he stepped it up with a new game called “Slayers” where death row inmates are the ones being controlled and if they win 30 matches they are set free. Gerard Butler plays Kable, an inmate who has gotten the farthest so far with 27 wins, when most don’t make it to 10. Of course he’s innocent.

Now the plot, while ridiculous, could be alright, but this movie is just stupid. It’s mainly just shots of gore and tits cut together so fast and in no context so they really don’t mean anything. Go ahead and watch the first scene and tell me if you have any clue what the hell happens in it. It seems like they made this movie for an audience with less than no attention span, but then there’s a whole convoluted plot that makes no sense anyway. Also Marilyn Manson’s version of “Sweet Dreams” is used not once, but twice. I guess they couldn’t afford another song. I dunno. The first time is fine, the second time was unnecessary.

Then we have everything else. The acting, even with actors that are generally good, is absolutely horrible. Phoning it in would be too good of a description. Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under) plays the main bad guy and could not be worse (except possibly during an odd dance number that comes out of nowhere for no reason). This movie really has absolutely no redeeming qualities. Actually no, it has one redeeming quality and that is a very quick cameo by James Roday and Maggie Lawson who play Shawn and Juliet on Psych. I have no clue why they were there, but it was the one moment of the movie that drew my interest.

I really don’t recommend this to anyone, but should you be interested it comes out on Blu-ray and DVD January 19th.