Neveldine/Taylor, the brains behind the Crank series and full on frat boys with a budget return with a non-Crank film, one that has it's own plot, ideas, and, shock horror, is more serious than not.
In Game/Citizen Game/Gamer Gerard Butler plays Kable, a superstar around the world and prison inmate who participates in a televised championship series of video games where real people are controlled and used throughout, an FPS with real people basically.
There's little originality in the premise by any means, but you have to know that the duo aren't planning on breaking barriers with this film, it's a break from the manic crazy inventive Crank series that lets them simply tell a story with 3 acts over a 90 minute runtime, and they succeed with some interesting characters, excellent action, brilliant actors, Logan Lerman and Michael C. Hall both shine moreso, and overall it's a rather fun film, if a little dark.
In the end of the film there's a dance sequence/fight sequence with the bad guy lip synching Sammy Davis Jr.'s "I got you under my skin" and it's that level of silliness that does help some of the parodical elements, which includes a second real life video game called Society, basically Playstation Home or Second Life with real people, so naturally people pay to play as other people having lots of sex all the time. A character pops up named Rick Rape, he, well, he doesn't last long, thankfully not in 'that' way.
It's a shame that the film doesn't reach for the stars and be groundbreaking, but it's easy to see why the duo would want a bigger budget, lower hassle film to work on that's sure to gratify a broader audience than the controversial Crank series, and for what it does it's a well made piece of entertainment, and the Red cameras are used extremely well.
Having seen it twice I enjoyed it both times, the second time had no surround sound which did make it less of a film, but that only tells you how important audio truly is.
Still, it's a violent, sexual, silly film and rather enjoyable to watch.
9/10
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