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The Onion (A.V. Club) | Josh ModellAdd Critic to Favorites

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

Variety | Rob NelsonAdd Critic to Favorites

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 Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites

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

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  • Cinematical Seven: The Good and The Bad of Gaming

    01/19/10 I think we are all pretty sick of video game movies these days, and whether this is because most of them suck, I couldn't tell you.  |  Cinematical.com
  • Ricky Gervais Learns To Lie While Gerard Butler Games On In The DVD Report For January 19

    01/19/10 On the action side, we have Gerard Butler's "Gamer," which is basically a cross between "Gladiator" and "The Running Man." The film takes place in a dystopian future where nerds control beefy human avatars in a massively multiplayer online game.  |  MTV Movies Blog
  • Spin-ematical: New on DVD and Blu-ray for 1/19

    01/19/10 Perhaps Kate Beckinsale is the most powerful superchick of them all, lounging in Antarctica without the slightest winter weathering, fighting off the area's first killer.  |  Cinematical.com
  • DVD: Newswire:DVD Release List – 01/19/10

    01/18/10 This is the week for interestingly flawed movies that are worth at least a rental, top-lined by the high-concept Ricky Gervais comedy The Invention Of Lying (which bogs down whenever it tries to be a melancholy romantic comedy, but succeeds whenever Gervais is exploring the reality of a world without lies) and Gamer (a typically garish Neveldine/Taylor action movie with a savage satirical perspective on the future of gaming culture).  |  The A.V. Club
  • And 2009's Biggest Bomb Was…Not What You Think

    12/23/09 The Transformers sequel was kinda gigantic.  |  E! Online
  • Gerard Butler

    11/03/09 Gerard Butler has boarded Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut "Coriolanus."  |  Variety
  • NBC has 'Zeroes' interest in drama project

    11/01/09 The feature writing-directing team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are venturing into television with a one-hour project for NBC.  |  The Hollywood Reporter
  • Gerard Butler, You Are Officially on Movie Star Probation

    10/19/09 It was a big weekend for Gerard Butler .  |  Defamer
  • 29% Gamer

    10/17/09 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.  |  Rotten Tomatoes
  • 'Wild' ride at box office

    10/15/09 Warner Bros. is getting in touch with its wild side with Spike Jonze's "Where the Wild Things Are" entering the frame at 3,735 locations.  |  Variety

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