Gamer – Official Movie Trailer
In the future it seems that death-row inmates will no longer have the luxury of being gung, electricuted or even given a fatal injection. No, we will soon put them in our own futuristic video game and have them battle to death against impossible odds.
Plot
Set in the near-future, mind-control technology has taken society by storm and a multiplayer on-line game called “Slayers” allows gamers to control human death row prisoners in mass-scale deathmatches, if an inmate lives through 30 matches then he wins his freedom. Simon (Lerman) controls Kable (Butler) the on-line champion of the game having won 27 matches and lived through them all, with his every move tracked by millions, his ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game’s mastermind (Hall) through launching an attack on the system that has imprisoned him.
