Gamer - DVD [2009]

Blu-ray pressing. Gamer is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online games people play people... for keeps. Mind-control technology is widespread, and at the heart of the controversial games is it's creator, reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall). His latest brainchild, the first-person shooter game InchSlayers,Inch allows millions to act out their most savage fantasies online in front of a global audience, using real prisoners as avatars with whom they fight to the death. Kable (300's Gerard Butler) is the superstar and cult hero of the ultraviolent InchSlayers.Inch Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned and forced to fight against his will, the modern day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game to free his family, regain his identity and to save mankind from Castle's ruthless technology.

After veteran hit man Joe Flood (Dave Bautista) received a devastating medical diagnosis, he wasn't interested in declining or suffering... and he turned to his greatest rivals to take out a contract on himself. However, the doctor then called to apologize for looking at the wrong chart-and when Joe tries to back out, his colleagues are pretty insistent that a deal's a deal. Darkly comic action-thriller co-stars Sofia Boutella, Pom Klementieff, Terry Crews, Scott Adkins, Daniel Bernhardt, and Ben Kingsley. 104 min. Widescreen English.

Gerard Butler stars as Kable, condemned criminal and globally famous super-soldier in the ultimate multiplayer game, Slayers. Human controllers direct each thought and move of real-life prison inmates battling in hyper-intense environments where the goal is freedom and the penalty is death. But when Kable suddenly decides he wants out, his rebellion threatens the twisted plans of game creator Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall, TV's Dexter), who will stop at nothing to crush the renegade commando in this taut, adrenaline packed action-thriller.