Gamer (film)
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| Directed by | Neveldine/Taylor |
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| Written by | Neveldine & Taylor |
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| Cinematography | Ekkehart Pollack |
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| Distributed by | Lionsgate |
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94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $50 million |
| Box office | $40.8 million |
Gamer is a 2009 American science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The film stars Gerard Butler as a participant in an online game in which participants can control human beings as players, and Logan Lerman as the player who controls him. Alongside Butler and Lerman, it also stars Michael C. Hall, Ludacris, Amber Valletta, Terry Crews, Alison Lohman, John Leguizamo, and Zoe Bell.
Gamer was released in North America on September 4, 2009, receiving generally negative reviews from critics, who found the plot, direction, and script disappointing, though its performances, effects, and action sequences were praised. It received a mixed to positive reception by audiences, and was a box office bomb, grossing $40.8 million worldwide against a production budget of $50 million.
In 2034, inventor and professional computer programmer Ken Castle unveils self-replicating nanites that, by acting like brain cells, allow one person to completely sense the environment and interact with it using another person's body. Castle's first application of this technology, dubbed Nanex, is a game called Society, which allows gamers to control a real person in a pseudo community (much like The Sims or Second Life). This allows players to engage in all manner of debauchery, such as deliberately injuring their "characters" and engaging in rough sex with random people. People who work as "characters" in Society (having nanites in their brain) are very well compensated.
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