Gamer

About Gamer

Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game.

Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine directed Gamer, a 2009 science fiction thriller film. It runs 95 minutes and was released in September 2009.

Its themes are video game, prisoner, death game, and mind control.

Gerard Butler takes the lead as Kable, Amber Valletta as Angie, Michael C. Hall as Ken Castle, and Kyra Sedgwick as Gina Parker Smith. The screenplay is by Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine. It comes from Lakeshore Entertainment, Lionsgate, and Taurus Film. In the United States it streams on MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel.

The Running Man, Ready Player One, and Divergent make useful companions to Gamer, all filed under dystopia and not too distant future. TMDB voters put it at 5.7 out of 10 across 2,721 votes and it carries a R rating.