While I'm a gamer and understand much of the 'culture' what I was looking for is a good movie. This could have been a good movie with gaming elements, would have been fine.
It could have been a mediocre movie with excellent gaming elements and again it would be fine. It could be just average. Again I'm not difficult to please.
However what we got is a pure corn-cheese product that you can't finish the first 20 minutes of without thinking that submerging yourself in a vat of acid is much more preferable.
The problem is that first the premise is barely there. Aside from having PCs and that people game on them there is nothing there that belongs to the gaming culture or makes me as a gamer think: oh yeah. I get that. Pretty cool.
Apparently gaming is a sort of obscure thing that needs thousands of hours of research on a far away island in the middle of the ocean. So the director is excused for not portraying that.
So aside from a complete failure to do anything but reference gaming what do we get?
No characters No plot. Very cliched villain. Very cliched story.
The villain is pure cheese to the point that you wonder if they were trying to do an essay on boring villains.
Yes people. This happens and apparently the director decided to play in a no police mode. So the law does not exist.
If that is not enough the main character and overall plot has the same appeal a 2 week old half eaten maggot infested eggplant has.
Honestly there is nothing to watch here. A failure to be both a gaming movie and just a movie.
Some android indie games has more story and art than this let alone consoles and PC games or actual movies.
So save your time and go do something more entertaining like watching paint dry.
However what we got is a pure corn-cheese product that you can't finish the first 20 minutes of without thinking that submerging yourself in a vat of acid is much more preferable.
The problem is that first the premise is barely there. Aside from having PCs and that people game on them there is nothing there that belongs to the gaming culture or makes me as a gamer think: oh yeah. I get that. Pretty cool.
Apparently gaming is a sort of obscure thing that needs thousands of hours of research on a far away island in the middle of the ocean. So the director is excused for not portraying that.
So aside from a complete failure to do anything but reference gaming what do we get?
No characters No plot. Very cliched villain. Very cliched story.
The villain is pure cheese to the point that you wonder if they were trying to do an essay on boring villains.
Yes people. This happens and apparently the director decided to play in a no police mode. So the law does not exist.
If that is not enough the main character and overall plot has the same appeal a 2 week old half eaten maggot infested eggplant has.
Honestly there is nothing to watch here. A failure to be both a gaming movie and just a movie.
Some android indie games has more story and art than this let alone consoles and PC games or actual movies.
So save your time and go do something more entertaining like watching paint dry.