I've been trying to figure out a way to explain how much fun this movie is without making it out to be a cinematic masterpiece. Because, you know, it's an explosive action movie with spraying blood and gibs and boobs and crazy plots to take over the world, but it's also spectacularly entertaining!All that stuff is great, but what makes Gamer so compelling is how it plays games (pun intended?) with so many elements of our society we've come to accept. The Internet, gaming, reality TV, the prison system, incomprehensibly rich geniuses... It takes all these things and more, slides them a half-step forward and it all suddenly seems both absurd and frighteningly close. It's fiction in completely clear terms, but it's also so close to where we are now that you can see our world and the world in the movie merging such that you can't see where one stops and the other starts. It's more than a little disturbing.
And it's also awesome.
