2009 · action · thriller · sci-fi
Gamer
Directed by Brian Taylor1h 35m2009
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. Kable's ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game's mastermind.
Our read: Gamer (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · thriller · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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