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MOVIE REVIEW: Gamer

Posted September 7th 2009 by Frankie Aguilar.

Every aspect of this movie has the feel of good ideas unrealized. The premise is almost cool. The camera work is almost perfect. But like Brandy says "almost doesn't count". Disjointed is a word that begins to scratch the surface of the maelstrom that is this Gamer. The beginning introduces characters and ideas that disappear halfway through the movie. The second half brings up psychological and societal issues that you would never expect in an action movie. Social critiques like these have become more commonplace, especially in reference to human dependence on entertainment, but in this films it feels hackneyed and unnecessary. Gerard Butler, who plays the main character Kable/John Tillman, starts this film as a stoic killing machine, and ends as a whiny savior of mankind. The wishy washy nature of this movie, a shaky story and some overwhelmingly generalized social commentary, make for a strange movie-going experience.

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