RottenTomatoes.com
Log In | Register | What is RT?
Check out the new RT Community
  • Home
  • Movies
  • DVD
  • Celebrities
  • News
  • Critics
  • Trailers & Pictures
  • CommunityBeta
  • Box Office
  • | In Theaters
  • | Opening
  • | Upcoming
  • | Best Of
  • | Certified Fresh
  • | Showtimes
RT Search Powered by Google
help icon Enhanced RT
searches on Google
Click here to turn on enhanced search results from RT on your Google searches.
 
Movies / On DVD / Gamer
Gamer

Rate this Movie Help Icon

  • Write a Review
  • Read Reviews
  • Add to List
  • Get this Movie
  • Buy Poster External Icon
Bookmark and Share

Gamer (2009)

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
29 %
Tomatometer
Template ImageTemplate Image

How does the Tomatometer work Help Icon

Reviews Counted:70

Fresh:20

Rotten:50

Average Rating:4.2/10

Consensus: With all of the hyperkinetic action and none of the flair of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's earlier work, Gamer has little replay value.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for frenetic sequences of strong brutal violence throughout, sexual content, nudity and language.

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Theatrical Release:Sep 4, 2009 Wide

Box Office: $20,488,579

Synopsis: GAMER is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online... GAMER is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online games: people play people...for keeps. Mind-control technology is widespread, and at the heart of the controversial games is its creator, reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall). His latest brainchild, the first-person shooter game "Slayers," allows millions to act out their most savage fantasies online in front of a global audience, using real prisoners as avatars with whom they fight to the death.

Kable (300's Gerard Butler) is the superstar and cult hero of the ultraviolent "Slayers." Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned and forced to fight against his will, the modern day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game to free his family, regain his identity and to save mankind from Castle's ruthless technology.

GAMER stars Gerard Butler (300, THE UGLY TRUTH), Michael C. Hall (“Dexter”), Amber Valletta (TRANSPORTER 2), John Leguizamo (RIGHTEOUS KILL, ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13), with Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, and Kyra Sedgwick (“The Closer”).

Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment present a Lakeshore Entertainment/Lionsgate Production. GAMER is a Neveldine/Taylor Film. --© Lionsgate [More]

Starring: Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Kyra Sedgwick

Starring: Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Kyra Sedgwick, Amber Valletta, Logan Lerman, Alison Lohman, Terry Crews, John Leguizamo, Zoe Bell, John De Lancie, Aaron Yoo

Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor

Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Screenwriter: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright, Skip Williamson
Composer: Robert Williamson, Geoff Zanelli
Studio: Lions Gate Films

[See More Credits]

  • Trailers
  • Pictures
  • It's Cool, Yeah?
    >
    Trailer
    >
    Hitching A Ride
    >
    Van Rescue
    >
  • Brother
    >
1 - 4 of 5

See More Movie Trailers & Pictures

Get This Movie

Rent DVD
 
 

Click on the "ADD" button to put this movie into your Netflix queue.

 
 
Buy DVD
 
 
Release:

Jan 19, 2010

[DVD Details]
 
 

DVD Features:

  • Region [unknown]
  • Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
 
 
 
 

Reviews for Gamer

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
 
 
1 - 20 (sorted by date)
Text View | 1 2 3 4 >> >|
Arrange By:Fresh | Rotten | Comments | Name | Source | Date
 
 

What to make of short-attention-span artists satirizing a short-attention-span world? [Blu-ray]

Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
02/16/10
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

Incoherent and interminable...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
02/13/10
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

At times striking, and at others silly, and and yet at others sickening, but never too stupid, at least not compared to so much else flash and pop peddled to the masses these days.

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment Comment
12/17/09
William Goss
William Goss
Cinematical

a big, loud mess that loses its few good ideas in a morass of convoluted storytelling that it has, sadly, confused with stylish innovation

Full Review Source: Killer Movie Reviews | comment Comment
11/12/09
Andrea Chase
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews

A streak of genius runs through this dystopian vision of a world in where VR games are played with real people ... it touches some exposed nerves before retreating into clichés.

Full Review Source: AMCtv.com | comment Comment
11/03/09
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
AMCtv.com

Gamer feels like a video cheapie that just time warped in from the 1990s . . .

Full Review Source: fantastiqueZINE | comment Comment
11/02/09
James O'Ehley
James O'Ehley
fantastiqueZINE

Like the 'Crank' films, this is an absurdly exaggerated, outlandishly crass and alternately inventive and appalling depiction of a man violently fighting to liberate himself from the forces that seek to control him...

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
09/21/09
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
09/18/09
Kim Newman
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine

If you are a gamer, and like shooters, science fiction, action, and wouldn't consider gratuitous boob shots gratuitous, you won't feel short-changing on leaving the cinema after watching Gamer.

Full Review Source: Film4 | comment 2 Comments
09/18/09
Daniel Etherington
Daniel Etherington
Film4

Can I get back the ninety minutes of my life that I squandered sitting through this miasmic upchuck of techno sludge? What was the story again?

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment 6 Comments
09/18/09
Sukhdev Sandhu
Sukhdev Sandhu
Daily Telegraph

With its nano-technology synching different brains together, spyware programs attached to DNA, and a double dose of bad taste served up with a side-dish of splattered brains and skull fragments, Gamer is still mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
09/18/09
Rob Daniel
Rob Daniel
Sky Movies

It won’t win points for originality or depth, but the Crank boys are still on their game as far as sex, violence and sheer unapologetic excess go. High concept, high octane, highly likely to end up a post-pub staple.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
09/18/09
Tony Horkins
Tony Horkins
Total Film

While packed with guns, girls and gore, there's none of the gleeful knowingness that made their earlier films such guilty pleasures.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment 1 Comment
09/18/09
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

Edited with the finesse of a toddler on a sherbet dib-dab rush, the film dashes from one over-stylised battle sequence to the next.

Full Review Source: SFX Magazine | comment 4 Comments
09/18/09
James White
James White
SFX Magazine

The action sequences are disappointing, there's a distinct lack of wit or invention in the direction and it's also impossible to care about the characters when they're so thinly sketched.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
09/18/09
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

The film is a cacophonous mess without a single interesting character.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment 4 Comments
09/18/09
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor deserve some credit for being upfront about their desire to deliver purely adrenaline-driven action cinema and for making it look brilliant.

Full Review Source: Scotsman | comment Comment
09/18/09
Alistair Harkness
Alistair Harkness
Scotsman

Were Stanley Kubrick and Russ Meyer alive and their minds merged "Being John Malkovich"-style, the clash of their ids and egos might yield "Gamer." It will make you feel putrid, but it's satire that's sadistic, salacious and audaciously entertaining.

Full Review Source: Suite101.com | comment Comment
09/17/09
Nick Rogers
Nick Rogers
Suite101.com

attempts to lure audiences in with its fast-action but also provides a surprisingly thoughtful commentary on control and freedom and the means some will go to achieve it.

Full Review Source: Gazette (MD) | comment Comment
09/11/09
Jeffrey Lyles
Jeffrey Lyles
Gazette (MD)

Puts the viscera in visceral but a thought-provoking exploration of our increasingly disconnected society in drag as mindless action.

Full Review Source: Cinerina | comment Comment
09/10/09
Karina Montgomery
Karina Montgomery
Cinerina
 
 
1 - 20 (sorted by date)
Text View | 1 2 3 4 >> >|
all

Latest News for Gamer

September 04, 2009: Five Favorite Films with Chris "Ludacris" Bridges
Rapper Chris "Ludacris" Bridges has established himself in the acting community with roles in movies like "Crash" and his latest, "Gamer," alongside Gerard Butler. Find out what... More...

September 04, 2009: Neveldine and Taylor Talk Gamer Opens in new window
It's a happy weekend for action lovers any time Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have a movie heading into theaters -- and in a new interview with Collider, the writing/directing... More...

July 02, 2009: The Friday Harvest: Ice Age 3, Gamer, Daybreakers, and more!
More...

May 25, 2009: Trailer & Poster review Opens in new window
More...

See All

More DVDs

Close
Top Rentals
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
39% 39% 2012
25% 25% Law Abiding Citizen
11% 11% Couples Retreat
73% 73% Where the Wild Things Are
77% 77% The Informant!

More Rentals…

New On DVD This Week
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
85% 85% The Princess and the Frog
81% 81% Broken Embraces
26% 26% Ninja Assassin
13% 13% Did You Hear About the…
18% 18% The Fourth Kind

More New Releases…

See All

RT On Current TV

The Rotten Tomatoes Show on Current TV

DIRECTV 358 | Comcast 107 | DISH Network 196 | More...

Learn how you can be part of the show

More...

What’s Hot On RT

The Last Song Pics

The Last Song Pics

Miley Cyrus teams up with Nicholas Sparks

Predators

Predators

It must be said: Get to the trailer NOW!!!

Kick-Ass T-meter

Kick-Ass T-meter

Keep an eye on the early reviews from SXSW!

Premiere Pictures

Premiere Pictures

Pics from The Bounty Hunter red carpet!

Other News

Close
  • Top Stories
  • Popular
  • Interviews
 
 

Comments

 
 
Top Stories
Headlines Comments
  
  • Bryan Singer Talks X-Men: First Class Source: Los Angeles Times
10
  • Columbia Trying to Make Ghostbusters III Without Reitman? Source: New York Magazine
22
  • Tim Burton Adopts The Addams Family Source: Deadline Hollywood Daily
12
  • Here Comes the Avatar Double Dip Source: Los Angeles Times
41
  • The Hobbit's Quest Starts in June Source: ComingSoon.net
15
  • Summit Wants a Top Director for Breaking Dawn Source: Entertainment Weekly
38
  • Tron Legacy Set Reports and Interviews! Source: Collider.com
22
  • Ryan Phillippe, Captain America Contender? Source: HitFix
78
  • Predators Sneak Peek Posted Source: 20th Century Fox
20
  • Weekly Ketchup: Captain America vs. Agent Smith
150
Popular
Headlines Comments
  
  • Total Recall: Jennifer Aniston's Best Movies
77
  • Total Recall: Matt Damon's Best Movies
64
  • Weekly Ketchup: Captain America vs. Agent Smith
50
  • Critics Consensus: Green Zone Feels Stale
48
  • Box Office Guru Wrapup: Audiences Still Love Alice
41
  • RT on DVD & Blu-Ray: A New Moon and a Frog Princess
31
  • Tomatometer Watch: Critics Love Kick-Ass!
31
  • Friday Harvest: Iron Man 2 trailer, Robin Hood trailer and more!
19
  • Critics Consensus: Wimpy Kid Gets Picked On
9
Interviews
Headlines Comments
  
  • Exclusive: Oscar Nominee Jeff Bridges on Crazy Heart - The RT Interview
1
  • Exclusive: Oscar Nominee Colin Firth on A Single Man
10
  • Oscar Nominee Gabby Sidibe Talks Precious
23
  • One Man's Quest To Find The Worst Movie Ever
9
  • Five Favorite Films With Peter Jackson
78
  • Robert Downey Jr. talks Sherlock Holmes & Iron Man 2 - RT Interview
23
  • Director Ruben Fleischer Talks Zombieland
4
  • "I Don't Hate Women": Lars von Trier on Antichrist
19
  • Eric Bana talks Love the Beast - RT Interview
14
  • Fight Club Sound Designer Reflects on Film's 10th Anniversary
25
 
 

Sponsored Links

Around The Network

  • Gamer at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Gamer at IGN

Fresh Links

Featured
12 Sloshed Celebs
12 Sloshed Celebs External Link

In "honor" of St. Patty's Day, PopEater brings us 12 famous drunken celebrity appearances.

Stars Trashing Their Work
Stars Trashing Their Work External Link

How often do stars regret working on something? Moviefone has the lowdown on all the trash talk.

Wolverine Sings in Chinese?
Wolverine Sings in Chinese? External Link

JustJared shares with us a video of Hugh Jackman on The Tonight Show... singing in Chinese.

Worst Live-Action Cartoons
Worst Live-Action Cartoons External Link

Techland offers their list of the worst live-action adaptations of beloved cartoons to hit the big screen.

A Trailer for Every Oscar
A Trailer for Every Oscar External Link

Cracked has got the Oscars nailed; check out their comprehensive trailer for every Best Picture winner!

Promos
Get the Flixster App Now!
Get the Flixster App Now! External Link

Download it from iTunes and get Tomatometer scores straight to your iPhone!

 
 
About| Site Map| Help| RT To Go| Contact Us| Press| Critics Submission| Linking to RT| Licensing| Movie List| Celebs List| Newsletter
Copyright © 2010 Flixster, Inc. All rights reserved. | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy
Certain product data © 1995-present Muze, Inc. For personal use only. All rights reserved.