Gamer
2001 Comedy / Drama
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Summary
Street boy Tony has one dream - to invent a video game that will make him a fortune.
His first obstacle is to raise the capital to get his project off the ground. When
a robbery goes wrong, he ends up in prison. When he regains his freedom, he is undeterred,
and sets about launching his own video game. However, the experience proves to be
far more challenging than any game he could ever imagine…
Review
Here’s a film clearly aimed at the computer game junky – and that pretty well defines
the full extent of its target audience. It’s hard to imagine that anyone else would
bother to sit through what seems to be an utterly chaotic juvenile romp. It’s brash,
it’s loud and it’s horribly insipid – a brave, possibly insane, attempt to bring together
the worlds of cinema and video game. Whilst the film does have some artistic strengths
(the visual style, whilst jarring, certainly does break new ground), the weak script and
some characterless acting performances just about make it unwatchable for anyone with
no real interest in the film’s subject.
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