Gamer Critic Reviews

The trouble with Gamer is that it’s weird, but not weird enough for the long haul.Read the full review

The audience gets played in Gamer. This latest eye-scraper from writer-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor is as hopped up as their "Crank" pics, but with dour Gerard Butler as a soldier commandeered by a teenage gamer, it's considerably less interactive.Read the full review

The technical barrage of visual and digital effects, quick cuts and strobe lighting does produce something akin to the sensation of playing a video game. So why, one wonders, don't potential viewers simply play one instead of watching this pale imitation?Read the full review

For long stretches of the PlayStation-minded Gamer, the action does drag.Read the full review

I wonder if Gamer might make a good game; it certainly doesn't make a good movie.Read the full review

Rarely have the words "game over" come as such sweet relief.Read the full review

As the brutish Kable, Gerard Butler must find out who's pulling his strings, but it's the audience whose chain gets yanked by this headache-inducing techno-violent mishmash.Read the full review