This isn't an outright terrible movie, although that third act is pretty bad. In the near-future, a tech-billionaire named Castle (Michael C. Hall) discovers how to use nano-technology to remotely control other human beings. His first creation is basically The Sims but with real people, the ultimate in virtual voyeurism. Upping the ante, his next venture is Slayers, which pits death row inmates against each other. If an inmate survives 30 battles, they are free to go. The game's main star is Kable (Gerard Butler), played by a seventeen-year-old kid named Simon (Logan Lerman). Kable is just looking to get out so he can get back to his wife (Amber Valleta) and daughter because, of course, he was wrongfully convicted. For reasons that are never clearly defined, Castle will go to any length to keep Kable from winning, even adding in a non-player-controlled psychopath (Terry Crewes) to kill him. Fortunately, a group of cyber activists called Humanz is willing to help Kable escape in order to keep Castle from turning the world into nano-puppets.
Essentially, it's Death Race meets Call of Duty. Your enjoyment of it will depend on how much either of those two things blows your skirt up. I found the soundtrack to be an exceptionally lazy mix of electronica and Marilyn Manson, more suited to a movie from a decade earlier. It's also one of those movies where the dialogue is very quiet and everything else is extremely loud. I didn't outright hate it, but I wouldn't rush out to watch it again. The dance number near the end was entertaining, though.
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