99% no spoilers Gamer (2009)
Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor
Today the duo of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor has left clear his passion for video gaming, a topic which currently comprises 100% of the course of his work behind the camera.
A work that began with the first delivery of the leaflet Crank (Crank, 2006), so far his best film and best unofficial adaptation of the influential film series of games from Rockstar: Grand Theft Auto, Gta for friends.
remember the many nods to the game that Neveldine and Taylor included in his debut, the typography of the niggers bareto based on that of Gta San Andres, cans of energy drink called Rockstar, the main character's penchant for stealing the vehicle after vehicle to move from side to side City drivers and throwing in that game ... seems curiously rockstar developers have given back to the gesture in GTA 4, the resemblance to the protagonist of the latest installment of the Crank Chev Chelios is evident.
But after the disappointment that is the viewing of Crank 2 (Crank 2: High Voltage), I must say that his latest film, Gamer, also leaves a better taste. This time the directors have set their eyes on two games, "The Sims", which has its counterpart in an invention called "Society", where people from home runs to other real people that lend themselves to this end, and "Gears of War", the mirror is "Slayers", a bloody spectacle where players control actual battles inmates to death and whose parts are filmed with the same gray photograph the Microsoft game.
In this future world where people can be controlled by an IP address in the brain (flip), thanks to technology developed by the alter ego of Bill Gates, Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall, best known for Dexter ) is Kable (Gerard Butler), Slayers player who would have a couple of sessions to settle his account with society, and his wife, who works in Society, though their work in game seem rather like those of a prostitute . 
scenes are precisely the "Society" the most sordid and the most interesting film, both as shown (that girl licking their wounds while crying and laughing at once) as suggesting a glance repulsion Angie (Amber Valletta) while used as a sex object, or when Hackman (Terry Crews, future "Expendable") kills a couple in the elevator to meet the sadistic instincts of the player who controls a culminating moment the emergence of Kable distributing tow to form another exciting idea, what if the characters of social simulation games and shooter are you? 
Unfortunately when the story leaves "Society" is exhausted irony that the film's authors have attempted to draw the virtual world than the critical load and the survival game "Slayers" has not taken off, the same is because we have already seen many times previously in films like The Running (Running Man, 1987), Rollerball (Rollerball, 1975) or The Death Race, 2000 (Death Race, 1975). 
history Nor has the evocative power and density of Blade Runner (Blade Runner, 1982) although he wishes at times related to it with that Gerad Blute going from side to side holding hands and waving his girl the gun as if it were coming Richard Deckard Rachael's apartment or homage to the end of the original version of 82 of the Ridley Scott classic. 
be that the background is so obvious that falls under its own weight and that takes away interest in the proposal, the media manipulation, the ruthless than the big companies, the use of violence as entertainment, people that live attached to a computer screen (check the hedonistic Gorduno comegofres handling of the protagonist's wife), all very trite themes in science fiction, something that makes your intentions are harmless satire beyond the treacherous contributed notes by the colorful world of "Society" and as an action film can not stress too much because of the mockery that is designed, which is in part because of its weak and sometimes foolish script. 
5 - Start writing. 
